From 8ded65682bee2a1c04392a88e0df0f4fc7552623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 13:36:39 -0400
Subject: Remove configurability of PPC spinlock assembly code.

Assume that we can use LWARX hint flags and the LWSYNC instruction
on any PPC machine.  The check on the assembler's behavior was only
needed for Apple's old assembler, which is no longer of interest
now that we've de-supported all PPC-era versions of macOS (thanks
to them not having clock_gettime()).  Also, given an up-to-date
assembler these instructions work even on Apple's old hardware.
It seems quite unlikely that anyone would be interested in running
current Postgres on PPC hardware that's so old as to not have
these instructions.

Hence, rip out associated configure test and manual configuration
options, and just use the modernized instructions all the time.
Also, update atomics/arch-ppc.h to use these instructions as well.
(It was already using LWSYNC unconditionally in another place,
providing further proof that nobody is using PG on hardware old
enough to have a problem with that.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166622.1660323391@sss.pgh.pa.us
---
 src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/tools/msvc')

diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
index df594b2fe7a..6300053dbe5 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ sub GenerateFiles
 		HAVE_PAM_PAM_APPL_H         => undef,
 		HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE          => undef,
 		HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE        => undef,
-		HAVE_PPC_LWARX_MUTEX_HINT   => undef,
 		HAVE_PPOLL                  => undef,
 		HAVE_PS_STRINGS             => undef,
 		HAVE_PTHREAD                => undef,
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