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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] lib: Introduce generic __cmpxchg_u64() and use it where needed
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 09:59:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0160f4b-b996-b0ee-405a-3d5f1866272e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181101163212.GF3159@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>



On 11/01/2018 09:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>> Anyhow, if the atomic maintainers are willing to stand up and state for
>> the record that the atomic counters are guaranteed to wrap modulo 2^n
>> just like unsigned integers, then I'm happy to take Paul's patch.
> 
> I myself am certainly relying on it.


Could we get uatomic_t support maybe ?

This reminds me of this sooooo silly patch :/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=adb03115f4590baa280ddc440a8eff08a6be0cb7


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 19:52 [RFC PATCH] lib: Introduce generic __cmpxchg_u64() and use it where needed Guenter Roeck
2018-10-31 21:32 ` Paul Burton
2018-10-31 22:02   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-10-31 23:32     ` Paul Burton
2018-11-01  0:17       ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 13:18         ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-01 14:59           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 15:22             ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 16:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 16:59                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2018-11-01 17:14                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:27                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 20:29                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 21:38                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 22:26                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:43                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:01                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:18                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:34                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-01 17:46                     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-11-01 21:45                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-02 10:56                   ` David Laight
2018-11-02 12:23                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-02 13:38                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-02 13:37                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-02 16:19                 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2018-11-05 10:38                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-05 14:24                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 17:54         ` Paul Burton
2018-11-01  1:18       ` Guenter Roeck
2018-11-01  6:30         ` Trond Myklebust
2018-11-01 15:28           ` Guenter Roeck

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