linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it

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Date:	Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:45:40 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it 

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:

> Also, I don't see quite why you think "cmpxchg()" and "atomic_cmpxchg()" 
> would be different. ANY cmpxchg() needs to be atomic - if it's not, 
> there's no point to the operation at all, since you'd just write it as

It's not that atomic_cmpxchg() is different to cmpxchg(), it's that
atomic_set() is different to direct assignment.

atomic_set() on PA-RISC, for example, has spinlocks in it.

David
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