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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] mutex subsystem, add atomic_*_call_if_*() to i386
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> This new macro is only going to be used in x86-specific files, right? 
> There's no practical way to implement this on lots of other
> architectures.

The default implementation does the call in C.

> Embedding a call in asm("") can break other things too - for instance,
> unwind tables could become inaccurate.

I doubt unwind tables are used at all for the kernel, are they?


Nicolas