Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7

From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:47:48 +1000

> So neither could currently supported atomic_t ops be shared with
> userland accesses?

Correct.

> Then I think it would not be breaking any interface rule to do an
> atomic_t atomic_cmpxchg either. Definitely for my usage it will
> not be shared with userland.

Ok.
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