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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Felipe W Damasio <felipewd@terra.com.br>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/futex.c: Uneeded memory barrier
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:36:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915054300.74AF72C061@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:02:42 +0100." <20030913190242.GC7404@mail.jlokier.co.uk>

In message <20030913190242.GC7404@mail.jlokier.co.uk> you write:
> If _all_ instances in the kernel of
> 
> 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING)
> 
> can be validly turned into
> 
> 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING)
> 
> it would be good to make the barrier in set_current_state() itself
> conditional on the state being state.

Or eliminate the macro altogether, and create set_current_interruptible()
and set_current_uninterruptible() which have the barrier, and let the normal
users do the assignment the way God intended 8)

In practice, those who care are using __, the rest aren't critical.

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-15  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12 18:20 [PATCH] kernel/futex.c: Uneeded memory barrier Felipe W Damasio
2003-09-12 18:33 ` Felipe W Damasio
2003-09-15  9:39   ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-16 12:05     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 19:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15  1:36   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-09-14 11:39 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-14 14:08   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15  3:41     ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-15  9:23       ` Russell King
2003-09-15 16:32         ` Rusty Russell

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