[PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Tue Jan 5 13:57:32 EST 2010


Jamie Iles wrote:
> perf events require that we can support atomic64's. There is a generic,
> spinlocked version that we can use until we have proper hardware
> support.

Is that simply waiting for LDREXD/STREXD-based atomic64's, or is it
depending on something subtler?

-- Jamie



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