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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework
    On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:25:49PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
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    > Is it worth considering a move towards using C11 atomics and barriers and
    > compiler intrinsics inside the kernel? The compiler _ought_ to be able to do
    > these.
    >
    > One thing I'm not sure of, though, is how well gcc's atomics will cope with
    > interrupt handlers touching atomics on CPUs without suitable atomic
    > instructions - that said, userspace does have to deal with signals getting
    > underfoot. but then userspace can't normally disable interrupts.

    I can do an asm-generic/atomic_c11.h if people want.


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