From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double()
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:39:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEB662A.9070308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE86D6502000078000679FE@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On 12/14/2011 12:33 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
> At once also change the return value type to what it really is -
> 'bool'.
>
I have a hazy memory of "bool" not working correctly in inline assembly,
but it might be ancient history by now.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 8:33 [PATCH] x86: fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double() Jan Beulich
2011-12-15 9:55 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Fix " tip-bot for Jan Beulich
2011-12-15 22:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-16 8:48 ` Jan Beulich
2011-12-16 15:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-18 8:43 ` [PATCH] x86: fix " Ingo Molnar
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