Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 23:17:30 EST


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:02 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:02:49AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >
> > > > mips has additional sync.
> > >
> > > But atomic_dec + 2 barries is going to do the sync as well, no?
> >
> > On UP do not.
>
> Shouldn't we should be fixing the MIPS implementation of
> atomic_sub_return to not do the sync on UP then?

Unfortunately not, that sync is required exactly for return value store.

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Evgeniy Polyakov

Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski

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