On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:27:36AM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 03:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Notes: > > - arc asm/atomic.h is a bit of a mess after the eznps merge, I would > > recommend a restructure or split of that file, but could not find > > the will to do it. > > - arc, metag and tile could convert to _relaxed. > > Yes that was bothering me too. The split is indeed in order. However good > news is > even w/o it I have decent cleanup as all the backoff retry code can now be > removed. The hardware guys did their foo and production RTL with latest h/w > release doesn't suffer from the scond livelock problem. I'd disabled the > config > option for some time and now the code can be removed as well. > > What's ur merge plan - are u going to rebase/respin once more so I can push > those > updates to Linus for 4.7-rc2. Or you could carry those ARC patches in ur tree > - > ahead of ur series. I'd much rather prefer the revert / cleanup before adding > new > code which extends the back off code only to be deleted later.
I was hoping to get these into tip for v4.8, I can rebase on whatever changes you make in v4.7 no problem.
