[LITMUS^RT] New release: 2012.3

[Björn Brandenburg]

On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Andrea Bastoni <bastoni at sprg.uniroma2.it> wrote:

> IMHO, if it's not an issue to have 32 bit only atomic in the current
> litmus (for ARM), I think it's easier/faster to wait for the kernel
> people to add appropriate support for atomic 64 on ARM, and go back to
> 32-only for the moment on ARM.
> 
> Just my 2 cents,

On Jan 16, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Glenn Elliott <gelliott at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

> Echoing Andrea, what is the motivation for 64-bit in Litmus for this case?
> 

I think the proper patch for this issue is to switch to native 'unsigned long'  types. This will be 64 bits on x86 and 32 on ARM. There's no need to have a consistent binary interface across different architectures. All we need is for liblitmus and the kernel to agree on the layout.

Merging some IFDEF'd macros for this is not the best solution, I think.

Thanks,
Björn