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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double()
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:43:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111218084351.GG4144@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEB662A.9070308@zytor.com>


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/2011 12:33 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> > At once also change the return value type to what it really is -
> > 'bool'.
> > 
> 
> I have a hazy memory of "bool" not working correctly in inline assembly,
> but it might be ancient history by now.

I too have memory of badness - but i think it was something 
about suboptimal code generated. We'll see any stability 
problems soon enough, now that it's committed :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14  8:33 [PATCH] x86: fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double() Jan Beulich
2011-12-15  9:55 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Fix " tip-bot for Jan Beulich
2011-12-15 22:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-16  8:48     ` Jan Beulich
2011-12-16 15:39 ` [PATCH] x86: fix " H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-18  8:43   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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