On 01/21/2014 07:31 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Waiman Long<waiman.l...@hp.com> wrote:
include/linux/compiler.h:
#ifndef __native_word
# ifdef __arch_native_word(t)
# define __native_word(t) __arch_native_word(t)
# else
# define __native_word(t) (sizeof(t) == sizeof(int) || sizeof(t) ==
siizeof(long))
# endif
#endif
Do we even really need this?
I'd suggest removing it entirely. You might want to retain the whole
compiletime_assert_atomic_type()
thing on purely the alpha side, but then it's all inside just the
alpha code, without any need for this "native_word" thing.
And if somebody tries to do a "smp_store_release()" on a random
structure or union, do we care? We're not some nanny state that wants
to give nice warnings for insane code.
Linus
That sounds good to me too. Peter, what do you think about this?
-Longman
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