Re: RFC: New userspace fetch/store API

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Feb 24, 2019, at 9:12 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> I'm far more inclined to just want the limited API with as many
> constraints as reasonable, e.g. an atomic 32bit fetch or store and
> that's it. Maybe add 64bit variants, but no more. No point really in
> having a lot of dead weight around.

32-bit on every platform, and 64-bit on LP64 platforms (for pointers).

I’m fine with that, so long as we’re willing to “give up” on the other things that use byte / short / in-interrupt.

-- thorpej