The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
such cases.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda
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include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h | 19
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 12:46:34PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
> such cases.
FWIW,
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