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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] atomic_read


On 11 Mar 2005, at 16:52, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Ahh... I assumed asm-x86/atomic.h was simply out of date, but I see now that you've modified it yourself. So _atomic_* should now be considered part of the arch->common interface? Further, it should actually *not* be an atomic access at all? Of course it will be faster ("better-quality") code if it's not assumed to be an atomic access... in which case isn't the naming a little misleading?

I noticed this problem because linux/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h doesn't have _atomic_* functions. I guess this means I will need to implement my own non-atomic _atomic_* functions?

We only define single-word get/set macros (_atomic_read/_atomic_set). These are trivially atomic on any architecture we care about. In fact we only use them to set up local variables prior to pushing out to a shared atomic variable, so the atomicity doesn't really matter to us; it's a bonus.

 -- Keir



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