Re: RFR: 8318776: Require supports_cx8 to always be true [v7]

2023-11-23 Thread David Holmes
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:09:27 GMT, David Holmes wrote: >> As discussed in JBS all platforms (some tweaks to Zero are in progress) >> actually do support `cx8` i.e. 64-bit compare-and-exchange, so we can strip >> out the locked-based alternatives to using it and just add a guarantee that >> it

Re: RFR: 8318776: Require supports_cx8 to always be true [v7]

2023-11-23 Thread David Holmes
> As discussed in JBS all platforms (some tweaks to Zero are in progress) > actually do support `cx8` i.e. 64-bit compare-and-exchange, so we can strip > out the locked-based alternatives to using it and just add a guarantee that > it is true at runtime. And all platforms except some ARM