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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: add another generic ext2 atomic bitops
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:00:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106031800.22298.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306938736-11119-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

On Wednesday 01 June 2011, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> The majority of architectures implement ext2 atomic bitops as
> test_and_{set,clear}_bit() without spinlock.
> 
> This adds this type of generic implementation in ext2-atomic.h and
> use it wherever possible.

The idea sounds really good, but I'm trying to keep the number of
ARCH_* macros low. How about instead providing a new
asm-generic/bitops/ext2-atomic-setbit.h or similar?

Each architecture can then include either the spinlock or the
atomic bitop based version.

	Arnd

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-03 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01 14:32 [PATCH] asm-generic: add another generic ext2 atomic bitops Akinobu Mita
2011-06-02  4:30 ` Greg Ungerer
2011-06-03 16:00 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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