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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:14:13 -0800
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>, linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>, x86@kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Arnd

On 12/04/2011 02:41 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> I agree with Russell, his approach is a lot easier to maintain long run,
> we should even consider converting existing definitions.
> 

Thirded.

	-hpa


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