Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?
Date: 2004-01-02 03:14:22
Message-ID: 200401020314.i023EMn02907@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it might be possible to develop a localized patch for 7.4 that
> only affects linux-hppa and doesn't risk breaking anything else: copy
> the slock_t definition for hppa from hpux.h into linux.h and add the
> inline'd version of hppa tas() from CVS tip into s_lock.h. But I'm not
> particularly interested in working on it at two removes from where any
> testing could get done.

I think he also has to modify src/include/port/linux.h to support the HP
processor.

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