Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
