From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Cc: sankar <san_madhav@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on atomic_inc/dec
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:44:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014214437.GA30302@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A20D5638D741DD4DBAAB80A95012C0AED78649@orsmsx409.jf.intel.com>
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? I mean, are
they privileged on some architectures, or ...? It seems like some
user-space apps might really benefit from simple atomic ops. Or at least,
kernel-coders writing in userspace could sure use simple atomic ops :)
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 21:57 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 [this message]
2003-10-14 22:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-15 7:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
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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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