I have a concern about the proposed patch: if the code is ever built for
an arch > 7-a (in the future) the wrong code will silently be built.

Is it not feasible to use configure tests to determine whether
asm("nop") and __sync_* are supported?  This is more future-proof...

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[armel] fio fails to build with ARMv7 optimizations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532722
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