Re: [PATCH 03/11] kernel/locks: consolidate RWSEM_GENERIC_* options

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:08 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Introduce one central definition of RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM and
> RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK in kernel/Kconfig.locks and let architectures
> select RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM if they want it, otherwise default to
> the spinlock version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Note that this conflicts with "[PATCH v4 2/3] locking/rwsem: Remove
rwsem-spinlock.c & use rwsem-xadd.c for all archs"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1550095217-12047-3-git-send-email-longman@xxxxxxxxxx/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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