Re: [PATCH v9 14/14] powerpc: rewrite local_t using soft_irq
- From
- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
- Date
- 2017-08-04 01:41:01
- Reply to
- Nicholas Piggin, 2017-08-03
On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 03:50 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Hey, so... why are any of these implemented in asm? We should just do them all in C, right? I looked a bit harder at code gen and a couple of them are still emitting larx/stcx.
As long as we can guarantee that the C compiler won't play games
moving stuff around. But yes, I tend to agree.
Cheers,
Ben.