Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:06:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Fix a couple busy loops in mach_wakecpu.h:wait_for_init_deassert() |
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> But if people do seem to have a mixed / confused notion of atomicity > and barriers, and if there's consensus, then as I'd said earlier, I > have no issues in going with the consensus (eg. having API variants). > Linus would be more difficult to convince, however, I suspect :-)
The confusion may be the result of us having barrier semantics in atomic_read. If we take that out then we may avoid future confusions.
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