[LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow to compile on archs without atomic support

[Petr Vorel]

Hi,

> > What if we made general implementation with some locking? It would be
> > slower, but I think we don't use atomics that much for it to matter.

> Atomic increment was easiest way how to make the test library thread
> safe I wasn't concerned with speed at all. But that is not true for the
> CVE tests which use atomic operation to synchronize threads to trigger
> races.
That's why I implemented it in v1 as simple exit(). So are we ok that CVE tests will
probably be failing / taking so long?

Thank you both, for considering it, as I know it's only corner case.


Kind regards,
Petr