Re: test_and_set_bit() not atomic forever? [cli/sti in char/vt.c [patch]]

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 16:04:31 +0100

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>The SPARC bitops.h code is ...hummm... interesting. It reads (quoting):
>
>/* User mode bitops, defined here for convenience. Note: these are not

Those are the user-mode versions, not used in the kernel. Look further down
the file for the kernel implementations (the guts of which are in arch/sparc/
lib/bitops.S).

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