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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 13:05:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h src/sys/kern kern
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020522130536.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020523013305.B10069-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On 22-May-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> jhb         2002/05/22 06:19:22 PDT
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/i386/include     cpufunc.h
>>     sys/kern             kern_mutex.c
>>   Log:
>>   Rename cpu_pause() to pause().  Originally I was going to make this an
>>   MI API with empty cpu_pause() functions on other arch's, but this
>>   functionality is definitely unique to IA-32, so I decided to leave it
>>   as i386-only and wrap it in #ifdef's.  I should have dropped the cpu_
>>   prefix when I made that decision.
>>
>>   Requested by:   bde
>>
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.122     +1 -1      src/sys/i386/include/cpufunc.h
>>   1.96      +5 -5      src/sys/kern/kern_mutex.c
> 
> Thanks.  Er, I'm not sure that this is an improvement, since the ugly
>#ifdefs are now meant to stay :-).

Well, I'm not a big fan of the #ifdef's either, but I think having
bogus empty cpu_pause() implementations for all our other arch's is
worse..

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