From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jbernard@debian.org (Jon Bernard)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 22:10:03 -0400
Subject: [ltt-dev] [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library 0.4.4
In-Reply-To: <20100520221607.GA17946@Krystal>
References: <20100520221607.GA17946@Krystal>
Message-ID: <20100521021001.GA7791@shaniqua>

* 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