Re: [patch] i386: make bitops safe

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 01:54, Richard Henderson wrote:

> I think the best argument for simply leaving things with a memory
> clobber is that these are atomic operations, and are on occasion
> used as locks, or parts of locks.

How about __set_bit? It is supposed to be not atomic. What would
be best there?

-Andi
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