Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:34:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] generic-pidhash-2.5.36-D4, BK-curr |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> I mean it is only safe to use such spinlock-based function if all other > places read and write this value via special functions that are also > taking this spinlock.
yes - but this is true in this specific PID allocator case, we only access it via cmpxchg().
Ingo
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