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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:10:20 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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noman pouigt wrote:
> x = 1;
> temp = atomic_read_increment(x);

atomic_set(&x, 1);
temp = atomic_inc_return(&x);

> I looked through the documentation for atomic
> operations but couldn't find out the api

Not everything is fully documented.

Look through include/asm-generic/atomic.h.


Regards,
Clemens