Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Prompted by confusion over Itanium/Opterion, I have written a patch to
> improve the way we define spinlocks for platforms and cpu's. It
> basically decouples the OS from the CPU spinlock code. In almost all
> cases, the spinlock code cares only about the compiler and CPU, not the
> OS.
>
> The patch:
>
> o defines HAS_TEST_AND_SET inside each spinlock routine, not in
> platform-specific files
> o moves slock_t defines into the spinlock routines
> o remove NEED_{CPU}_TAS_ASM define because it is no longer needed
> o reports a compile error if spinlocks are not defined
> o adds a configure option --without-spinlocks to allow
> non-spinlock compiles
OK, this applied patch implements the last two items. The earlier items
will have to wait for 7.5.
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