RFC 8188764: Obsolete AssumeMP and then remove all support for non-MP builds

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Sat Sep 15 08:32:08 UTC 2018


On 09/14/2018 02:17 AM, John Rose wrote:

> Therefore, if there is any chance of a race condition, we try to
> patch only naturally aligned words, as single, full-word writes.

Thanks for that. It was very difficult to understand what the code was
doing when I ported it to AArch64.

It would be very nice to have this commentary in the source code. May
I submit this as a comment-only patch?

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Andrew Haley
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