amd64 modules still use atomics as callable functions

Peter Jeremy peter at rulingia.com
Wed Oct 29 06:09:39 UTC 2014


On 2014-Oct-27 23:49:01 +0100, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> wrote:
>Turns out several years ago the kernel was modified to provide actual
>functions for atomic operations and modules are always using them.
>
>I propose plugging it on amd64 in head.
>
>For stable/10 we can always provide them, but inline in modules by default
>(testing a KLD_WANT_ATOMIC_FUNC knob?).

See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173322

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Peter Jeremy
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