Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:54:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/8] mutex subsystem, add atomic_*_call_if_*() to i386 |
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> This new macro is only going to be used in x86-specific files, right? > There's no practical way to implement this on lots of other > architectures.
The default implementation does the call in C.
> Embedding a call in asm("") can break other things too - for instance, > unwind tables could become inaccurate.
I doubt unwind tables are used at all for the kernel, are they?
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