Re: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Nov 05 2010 - 14:20:38 EST


Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 Ã 11:08 -0700, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit :
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:00:46 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 __ 10:20 -0700, Andrew Morton a __crit :
> >
> > > It totally makes sense to add include/linu/atomic.h for common things.
> > > Perhaps there's already code in arch/*/include/asm/atomic.h which
> > > should be hoisted up there. But that can't reliably be done until a
> > > million files have had their #includes switched :(
> > >
> >
> > Maybe including <linux/atomic.h> only from the end of various
> >
> > arch/*/include/asm/atomic.h ?
>
> heh, I guess that would work. It breaks the standard way of doing
> these things (I think?) so let's not go there unless we have a need?
>
> > In this case, I remove the include <asm/atomic.h> from linux/atomic.h
>
> Oh. Why? I thought it was better the previous, standard way: thou
> shalt henceforth include liunx/atomic.h, not asm/atomic.h. And the
> presence of linux/atomic.h will in fact trigger the checkpatch warning
> telling people to use that when they try to use asm/atomic.h.

Hmm, if we want to move the common stuff from
arch/*/include/asm/atomic.h to this new file (include/linux/atomic.h),
then we would have to change hundred of

#include <asm/atomic.h>

to

#include <linux/atomic.h>

This seems a big task to me ?

Or just make a whole tree replace ?



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