Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:21:24 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move xchg/cmpxchg to atomic.h |
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:22:42 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
We really can't. We _only_ have load-and-zero. And it has to be 16-byte aligned. xchg() is just not something the CPU implements.
Oh bugger... you do have real problems.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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