Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:51:56 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:29 +0100 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Well, if you insist on having it again: > > Waiting for atomic value to be zero: > > while (atomic_read(&x)) > continue; >
and this I would say is buggy code all the way.
Not from a pure C level semantics, but from a "busy waiting is buggy" semantics level and a "I'm inventing my own locking" semantics level.
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