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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
	sankar <san_madhav@hotmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on atomic_inc/dec
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:57:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066204651.5252.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014214437.GA30302@hockin.org>

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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:44, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:17:49PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> > It will be in include/asm/atomic.h; however, it is not wise to
> > use directly the kernel stuff unless you are coding kernel stuff.
> 
> Is there any reason NOT to use the atomic ops in user-space? 

also the /usr/include/asm/atomic.h versions never were actually atomic!
Those being actually atomic depends on CONFIG_SMP defined, which for
userspace... well you get the picture.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 21:17 Question on atomic_inc/dec Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-10-14 21:34 ` sankar
2003-10-14 21:44 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-14 22:35   ` David S. Miller
2003-10-15  7:57   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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2003-10-15 17:38 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-10-14 22:29 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-10-15 17:28 ` sankar
2003-10-14 18:38 sankar

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