On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:55:36AM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:02:29PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > +static __inline__ void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long mask = BITOP_MASK(nr);
> > + unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BITOP_WORD(nr);
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > + _atomic_spin_lock_irqsave(p, flags);
> > + *p |= mask;
> > + _atomic_spin_unlock_irqrestore(p, flags);
> > +}
>
> You could even use your new generic non-atomic bitops to implement these
Depends - to do so would increase the amount of code within the
locked region, which raises the probability of contention since the
locked time becomes longer.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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