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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sem_is_locked()
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:58:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040922115848.GR9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040922115103.GB27432@wotan.suse.de>

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:35:52PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
>> Obviously, generic code should not assume that a semaphore is
>> implemented using atomic_t.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Sure, but with that fact it's pretty easy to implement the macro
> wli wants for most architectures.

This sounds like I should just sweep them all and drop it in, as no
one is concerned much about the details. All's well, it seems.


-- wli

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 11:11 sem_is_locked() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-22 11:14 ` sem_is_locked() Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-22 11:26 ` sem_is_locked() Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 11:35   ` sem_is_locked() Russell King
2004-09-22 11:51     ` sem_is_locked() Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 11:58       ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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