Re: [PATCHv2 08/11] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:59:49AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> As a step to ensuring the atomic* APIs are consistent, switch to fallbacks
> generated by gen-atomic-fallback.sh.
> 
> These are checked in rather than generated with Kbuild, since:
> 
> * This allows inspection of the atomics with git grep and ctags on a
>   pristine tree, which Linus strongly prefers being able to do.
> 
> * The fallbacks are not expected to change very often, and are not
>   affected by machine details or configuration options, so regenerating
>   them for *every* build is somewhat wasteful.
> 
> * These are included by files required *very* early in the build process
>   (e.g. for generating bounds.h), and we'd rather not complicate the
>   top-level Kbuild file.

Would it be worth checking that the generated output from the script doesn't
differ from the file in tree at some point during the build, and issuing a
warning if they do?

Will