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Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 17:17:21 +0300 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops On 05/09/2012 04:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > +Local versions of the bitmask operations are also provided. They are used in > +contexts where the operations need to be performed atomically with respect to > +the local CPU, but no other CPU accesses the bitmask. This assumption makes it > +possible to avoid the need for SMP protection and use less expensive atomic > +operations in the implementation. > +They have names similar to the above bitmask operation interfaces, > +except that _local is sufficed to the interface name. suffixed (better: appended) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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