Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:02:09 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix the x86 specializations of atomic_[set|clear]_mask |
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:38:01PM -0400, Patrick Palka wrote: > This patch fixes a number of issues with these specializations: > > 1. The memory operand inside the asm specification is erroneously > declared read-only instead of read-write. > > 2. There is no reason to require the 1st operand of andl/orl to be > inside a register; the 1st operand could also be an immediate operand. > So change its specification from "r" to "ir". > > 3. Since addr is supposed to be an atomic_t *, the memory operand > should be addr->counter and not *addr. > > 4. These specializations should be inline functions instead of macros. > > 5. Finally, the "memory" clobbers are unnecessary, so they should be > removed. (This is in line with the other atomic functions such as > atomic_add and atomic_sub, the likes of which do not have a "memory" > clobber.)
No real problem with this, but I'm going to kill off these functions when I get a little time :)
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