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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm -v5] Separate atomic_t declaration from asm/atomic.h into asm/atomic_def.h
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:54:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I have a note here that Matthew has proposed a different way of doing
> all this. I don't immediately recall the details.
>
> Can we get a refresh on all of that please?

I didn't remember either, but having just reviewed my inbox from August,
I said that all architectures basically use:

typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
typedef struct { volatile long counter; } atomic64_t;
#endif

and that should just be put in <linux/atomic_types.h>.

Roman Zippel did me one better and suggested just putting it in types.h,
which works for me.

--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."


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