Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 11:36:41 EST


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:25:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> Do we really need another set of APIs? Can you give even one example
> where the pre-existing volatile semantics are causing enough of a problem
> to justify adding yet more atomic_*() APIs?

Let's turn this around. Can you give a single example where
the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?

Cheers,
--
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/