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From: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
To: "Linux-Kernel (E-mail)" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gnu asm help...
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:20:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <z0dk5C.A.DoE.WzoL7@dinero.interactivesi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9319DDF797C4D211AC4700A0C96B7C9404AC2068@orsmsx42.jf.intel.com>

** Reply to message from "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com> on Mon, 18 Jun 2001
15:56:50 -0700


> also if there is any reference to the gnu asm symtax, please send me a
> pointer.. 

There's lots

> i can understand what the LOCK "incl %0 means.. but not sure what the rest
> is for.

LOCK just means the x86 "lock" prefix.

incl is the 32-bit version of "inc" (incremement)

You want to return the variable?  Try this:

static __inline__ unsigned long atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
{
    __asm__ __volatile__(
        LOCK "incl %0"
        :"=m" (v->counter)
        :"m" (v->counter));

    return v->counter;
}


-- 
Timur Tabi - ttabi@interactivesi.com
Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-18 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-18 22:56 gnu asm help Raj, Ashok
2001-06-18 23:18 ` Erik Mouw
2001-06-19  6:25   ` Bohdan Vlasyuk
2001-06-18 23:20 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2001-06-19  7:44 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-19  1:36 Petr Vandrovec
2001-06-19 15:48 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-19 17:21   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-19  3:06 Rick Hohensee
2001-06-19 20:02 Petr Vandrovec

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