Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] i386: make bitops safe | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:24:13 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 01:54, Richard Henderson wrote:
> I think the best argument for simply leaving things with a memory > clobber is that these are atomic operations, and are on occasion > used as locks, or parts of locks.
How about __set_bit? It is supposed to be not atomic. What would be best there?
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