Messages in this thread | | | From | Sven Eckelmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero | Date | Sun, 8 May 2011 11:33:48 +0200 |
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Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: [...] > Do we need atomic_dec_not_zero() et.al. in every arch header - is there no > generic header which it could be added to?
Mike Frysinger already tried to answer it in <BANLkTimctgbto3dsnJ3d3r7NggS0KF9_Sw@mail.gmail.com>: > that's what asm-generic is for. if the arch isnt using it, it's > either because the arch needs to convert to it, or they're using SMP > and asm-generic doesnt yet support that for atomic.h. > > for example, the Blackfin port only needed updating for the SMP case. > in the non-SMP case, we're getting the def from asm-generic/atomic.h. > -mike
Feel free to change that but I just followed the style used by all other macros and will not redesign the complete atomic*.h idea.
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