On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:05:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> btw, I don't think anyone promised that __test_and_set_bit is atomic wrt
> interrupts on all architectures. Is OK for x86.
Correct. The generic version found in include/asm-generic/bitops/non-atomic.h
is not interrupt safe:
/**
* __test_and_set_bit - Set a bit and return its old value
* @nr: Bit to set
* @addr: Address to count from
*
* This operation is non-atomic and can be reordered.
* If two examples of this operation race, one can appear to succeed
* but actually fail. You must protect multiple accesses with a lock.
*/
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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