From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: green@namesys.com, zaitcev@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cmpxchg in 2.5.38
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:02:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925.120203.49564275.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209251024580.4690-100000@localhost.localdomain>
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:26:34 +0200 (CEST)
yes. It's only this place in the code that ever modifies that word
I just realized... how would a crippled spinlock implementation
protect the readers looking at the word?
The operation is decidely non-atomic, because only one side
of the access is being synchronized.
This is another reason you can't use cmpxchg like this and expect
every architecture to be able to do something reasonable.
Use instead some algorithm with xchg() which is supported on every
platform.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 5:00 cmpxchg in 2.5.38 Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-25 4:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 7:18 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 7:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 8:07 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25 8:48 ` [patch] pidhash-2.5.38-A0 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25 12:04 ` cmpxchg in 2.5.38 Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-09-25 17:42 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-25 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25 20:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 18:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 19:02 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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