Re: [PATCH] Native spinlock support on RISC-V

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2021-08-13 11:09:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> writes:
>>> Tested against PostgreSQL 13.3 on a physical rv64gc system (BeagleV
>>> Starlight beta board) - builds and installs fine, all tests pass.

> Should we backpatch this? It's not like we're going to break existing
> risc-v systems by enabling spinlock support...

Yeah, why not?  If you were building with --disable-spinlocks before,
this shouldn't change anything for you.

(I haven't actually looked at the patch, mind you, but in principle
it shouldn't break anything that worked before.)

            regards, tom lane