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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	sdake@mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue
Date: 12 Jun 2003 16:50:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055461816.662.350.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16105.3943.510055.309447@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org>

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:40, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> BZZZT.  If another CPU is also doing atomic_inc_and_read you could end
> up with both calls returning the same value.

That is what I thought. Damn.

> You can't do atomic_inc_and_read on 386.  You can on cpus that have
> cmpxchg (e.g. later x86).  You can also on machines with load-locked
> and store-conditional instructions (alpha, ppc, probably most other
> RISCs).

So this is doable on everything but old i386 chips... hrm.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-12 19:10 [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue Steven Dake
2003-06-12 21:47 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-13 16:31   ` Steven Dake
2003-06-13 17:06     ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-12 21:47 ` Greg KH
2003-06-12 22:03   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 22:50     ` Greg KH
2003-06-12 22:51       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-12 23:02         ` Greg KH
2003-06-12 23:09           ` Greg KH
2003-06-12 23:14             ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-12 23:16             ` Robert Love
2003-06-12 23:25               ` Greg KH
2003-06-13 20:01                 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-18 22:59                   ` Greg KH
2003-06-19  0:12                     ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-06-19  0:20                       ` Greg KH
2003-06-19  0:42                         ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-06-19  0:51                           ` Greg KH
2003-06-19  0:25                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-19  6:27                       ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-12 23:25               ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-12 23:29                 ` Robert Love
2003-06-12 23:32                   ` Greg KH
2003-06-12 23:34                   ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-12 23:40                     ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-12 23:50                       ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-06-13 12:44                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-13 12:54                           ` Olivier Galibert
2003-06-12 23:52                       ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-13  8:41                       ` Alan Cox
2003-06-13 11:00                         ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-13 11:07                           ` Herbert Xu
2003-06-13 13:31                           ` Alan Cox
2003-06-13 19:57                             ` Joe Korty
2003-06-13 21:10                               ` Alan Cox
2003-06-13 11:17                       ` David Schwartz
2003-06-13 15:44                         ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-12 23:42                     ` Robert Love
2003-06-12 23:45                     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-12 23:05       ` Robert Love
2003-06-19 19:51       ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-26 12:17         ` Tommi Virtanen
2003-06-26 14:35           ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-13  8:40     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-13  9:14       ` Olivier Galibert
2003-06-19 20:53         ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-13 16:05       ` Steven Dake
2003-06-13 16:32       ` Greg KH
2003-06-13 15:51   ` Steven Dake
2003-06-13 16:41     ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-13 16:42     ` Greg KH
2003-06-13 17:17       ` Chris Friesen
2003-06-12 22:27 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-13 16:03   ` Steven Dake
2003-06-13 16:50     ` Patrick Mochel
2003-06-13 17:10       ` Steven Dake
2003-06-13 18:26         ` Greg KH
2003-06-13 19:02         ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-06-13 17:32     ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-13 18:23     ` Greg KH
2003-06-13 18:24     ` Greg KH
2003-06-13  7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-13 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-19 23:32   ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-19 23:42     ` Steven Dake
2003-06-20  0:05       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-20  0:10         ` Steven Dake
2003-06-20  0:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-20  2:26             ` Werner Almesberger
2003-06-20 17:03             ` Steven Dake
2003-06-20 17:18               ` Patrick Mochel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-14  6:36 John Bradford

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