From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atomic operations
Date: 3 Jun 2002 11:43:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adgdbr$1nj$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE83E551E08D1D43AD52D50B9F5110927E7A15@ntserver2>
Followup to: <EE83E551E08D1D43AD52D50B9F5110927E7A15@ntserver2>
By author: Gregory Giguashvili <Gregoryg@ParadigmGeo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Could you, please, clarify what you meant saying that there was no way of
> doing so. I admit, I'm no expert in i386 assembly, but this operation seems
> so simple to me...
>
That doesn't mean the hardware is going to provide it atomically.
>
> Could you, please, suggest some other implementation (with waiting and
> trying again - whatever this means)?
>
Very simple:
- Set a spinlock (note: you need a spinlock variable)
- Read
- Add
- Clear spinlock
This is called "bootstrapping" -- using a more primitive atomic
operation to get what you need.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-03 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-03 19:09 Atomic operations Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-03 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2013-02-24 9:42 atomic operations Shraddha Kamat
2013-02-24 10:50 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-02-24 23:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-02-24 12:50 ` Peter Teoh
2013-02-24 12:53 ` Peter Teoh
2013-02-25 7:15 ` Kumar amit mehta
2013-03-01 5:44 ` Arun KS
2009-03-26 0:17 Atomic operations Timothy Hayes
2009-03-26 7:25 ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-26 7:34 ` Juergen Gross
2009-03-26 7:50 ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-27 17:22 ` Timothy Hayes
2009-03-27 17:56 ` Keir Fraser
2009-03-27 20:00 ` Timothy Hayes
2002-06-04 9:23 Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-03 15:58 Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-03 15:04 Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-03 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-03 18:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-03 19:36 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-03 21:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-03 18:39 ` Brian Gerst
2002-06-03 19:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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