Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > Also, I don't see quite why you think "cmpxchg()" and "atomic_cmpxchg()" > would be different. ANY cmpxchg() needs to be atomic - if it's not, > there's no point to the operation at all, since you'd just write it as It's not that atomic_cmpxchg() is different to cmpxchg(), it's that atomic_set() is different to direct assignment. atomic_set() on PA-RISC, for example, has spinlocks in it. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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