Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

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To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Nick Piggin <piggin@...>, Satyam Sharma <satyam@...>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, Chris Snook <csnook@...>, Ilpo Jarvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...>, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-arch@...>, Netdev <netdev@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <ak@...>, <heiko.carstens@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <schwidefsky@...>, <wensong@...>, <horms@...>, <wjiang@...>, <cfriesen@...>, <zlynx@...>, <rpjday@...>, <jesper.juhl@...>, <segher@...>
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 7:15 am

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:56:29AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

For driver authors who're too busy to learn the intricacies
of atomic operations, we have the plain old spin lock which
then lets you use normal data structures such as u32 safely.

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Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Aug 14, 6:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 3:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Thu Aug 16, 4:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 6:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Thu Aug 16, 5:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 6:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Aug 24, 1:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 8:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 8:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Wed Aug 15, 10:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Thu Aug 16, 3:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Aug 16, 2:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Aug 16, 4:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 1:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 2:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Mon Sep 10, 10:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 5:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 7:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 8:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 10:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Sat Aug 18, 1:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 6:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 10, 10:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] Document non-semantics of atomic_read() and atom..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Sep 11, 3:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 2:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Herbert Xu, (Mon Sep 10, 7:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Tue Aug 21, 10:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Mon Aug 20, 6:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Thu Aug 16, 12:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Fri Aug 17, 6:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Fri Aug 17, 10:31 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 10:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 10:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Wed Aug 15, 10:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 8:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 9:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Wed Aug 15, 10:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 8:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Wed Aug 15, 2:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Wed Aug 15, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Wed Aug 15, 10:25 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Wed Aug 15, 4:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Segher Boessenkool, (Wed Aug 15, 5:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Paul E. McKenney, (Wed Aug 15, 12:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Aug 14, 6:51 pm)