* David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 09:49 -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > Hi Ingo,
> > Doesn't this corrupt caller saved registers?
>
> Looks like it. I _really_ don't like calling functions from inline
> asm. It's not nice. Can't we use atomic_dec_return() for this?
we can use atomic_dec_return(), but that will add one more instruction
to the fastpath. OTOH, atomic_dec_return() is available on every
architecture, so it's a really tempting thing. I'll experiment with it.
Ingo
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