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* Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?
@ 2006-08-27 19:22 Dong Feng
  2006-08-27 20:52 ` Andi Kleen
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From: Dong Feng @ 2006-08-27 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ak, Paul Mackerras, Christoph Lameter; +Cc: linux-kernel

Why can't we have a hardware-independent semaphore definition while we
have already had hardware-dependent spinlock, rwlock, and rcu lock? It
seems the semaphore definitions classified into two major categories.
The main deference is whether there is a member variable _sleeper_.
Does this (optional) member indicate any hardware family gene?

Best Regards.
Feng,Dong

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2006-08-27 19:22 Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? Dong Feng
2006-08-27 20:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 21:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-27 21:39     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 22:14       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-28  0:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-28  5:14   ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-28  5:21     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-28  5:56     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-28 12:35     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-28  7:23   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29  1:00     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-28  7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-29  1:18   ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-29  6:07     ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-13 17:54       ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-29 10:05     ` David Howells
2006-08-29 10:56       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 17:40         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-29 19:10         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-08-29 15:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 16:20         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-08-29 16:25           ` David Howells
2006-08-29 16:28             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 16:57               ` David Howells
2006-08-29 16:53             ` Ralf Baechle
2006-08-29 16:58               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-29 17:22         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 17:36           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 18:18             ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 18:30               ` David Howells
2006-08-29 18:33                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 18:56                   ` David Howells
2006-08-29 18:41               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:04       ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-13 18:07         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:13           ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-13 18:16             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:50         ` David Howells
2006-09-13 19:25           ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-14 11:41             ` David Howells
2006-09-14 15:27               ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-14 15:38                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-15  8:59                 ` David Howells

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