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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.

Makes sense to me!

> 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.

Perhaps make the C11 definitions so that any arch can override any
specific definition?

Thanx, Paul



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