Re: [PATCHv3 08/12] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 01:58:42 EST


On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:23:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:40:49PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>
> > * 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.
>
> Except of course, your last patch in this series now does exactly that
> :-)

Second-last, but agreed. ;)

I'll reword this to:

* The fallbacks are not affected by machine details or configuration options,
so it is not necessary to regenerate them to take these into account.

Thanks,
Mark.