linux-kernel - Re: regarding use of various cmpxchg* API

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Message-ID: <5391CD70.70703@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:17:20 -0400
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regarding use of various cmpxchg* API

On 06/06/2014 03:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 
> Don't think that's useful. If you really want to go do something, try
> the annotation I suggested to get the parisc/sparc32 things correct
> again. Add the __atomic sparse address space and the store()/load()
> accessors.
> 

OK. I am not sure what you are referring to here, just started looking at the kernel again. Any pointers to this accessors thing?

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Pranith
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