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Re: [PATCH] ia64: Remove custom lowlevellock.h.
- From: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:45:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: Remove custom lowlevellock.h.
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Ping.
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 23:45 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> ia64 seems to use the same implementation of low-level locks as the
> generic Linux lowlevellock.h. The futex syscalls are somewhat
> different, but Roland thought it shouldn't matter. Note that the futex
> calls are on the slow path always (except for PI mutexes).
>
> Removing the custom low-level lock implementation will make further
> refactoring easier, for example adding proper error checking to futex
> operations.
>
> Not tested at all. Mike, could you review and test, please?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> 2014-12-17 Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
>
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/lowlevellock.h: Remove file.
>