[ltt-dev] [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library 0.4.4

Jon Bernard jbernard at debian.org
Thu May 20 22:10:03 EDT 2010


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Userspace RCU library 0.4.4 (available at http://lttng.org/urcu) includes an
> atomic operations fix for the 32-bit (and 64-bit) powerpc architectures, where
> the 4-byte cmpxchg was using a cmpd rather than the appropriate cmpw
> instruction.
> 
> It did cause illegal instruction faults on powerpc 32.

I think it would be useful to have the test scripts included in future
release tarballs so users can easily run the test suite via the check
target. I believe including runall.sh, runtests.sh, and
runtests-batch.sh from the tests subdirectory is all that would be
necessary.

Cheers

-- 
Jon




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