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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RT: Checks for cmpxchg in get_task_struct_rcu()
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:44:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127745877.28961.6.camel@c-67-188-6-232.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050926062552.GD3273@elte.hu>

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > Checks for cmpxchg in get_task_struct_rcu() . No race version.
> 
> shouldnt we actually define a global, default cmpxchg() function, based 
> on IRQ-disable - instead of open-coding one?

I was thinking it should be restructures so it just needs an atomic_inc
in this case. Considering that without cmpxchg() you must be on a UP
machine .

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-26 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21 23:37 [PATCH] RT: Checks for cmpxchg in get_task_struct_rcu() Daniel Walker
2005-09-22  0:59 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-22  2:18   ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-22  3:27     ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-22  4:50     ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-22  5:05       ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-26  6:25       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-26 14:44         ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2005-09-26  6:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-26  6:39     ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-26  6:48       ` Ingo Molnar

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