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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: "David Laight" <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org,
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	linux-cris-kernel@axis.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"Chris Metcalf" <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-am33-list@redhat.com,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 10:21:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105041021.22082.sven@narfation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6D8AD0D@saturn3.aculab.com>

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On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:05:53 David Laight wrote:
> > Introduce an *_dec_not_zero operation.  Make this a special case of
> > *_add_unless because batman-adv uses atomic_dec_not_zero in different
> > places like re-broadcast queue or aggregation queue management. There
> > are other non-final patches which may also want to use this macro.
> 
> Isn't there a place where a default definition of this can be
> defined? Instead of adding it separately to every architecture.

Not that I would know about such a place - and all other atomic* macro 
definitions also suggest that there is no such place.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 21:30 [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-04  4:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-05-04 15:04   ` James Bottomley
2011-05-04  6:12 ` David Miller
2011-05-04  7:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-04  8:05 ` David Laight
2011-05-04  8:21   ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2011-05-04  8:33   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-05-04 11:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-05-04 11:53 ` David Howells
2011-05-04 12:09 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-04 12:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-04 17:27 ` Will Deacon
2011-05-04 18:13 ` Matt Turner
2011-05-08  9:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-08  9:33   ` Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-09  2:38     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-05-08 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-05-18 19:49 ` [PATCHv2] " Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-23  7:13   ` Paul Mundt
2011-05-23  7:27   ` Heiko Carstens
2011-05-29  7:13   ` [PATCHv3] " Sven Eckelmann
2011-06-02  5:44     ` Hirokazu Takata

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