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

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To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Nick Piggin <piggin@...>, Satyam Sharma <satyam@...>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...>, 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 - 1:02 pm

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:38:23 +0100
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:


the arch/ people obviously are allowed to do their own locking stuff...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO IMPLEMENT THAT!


the arch maintainers know EXACTLY how their hw behaves (well, we hope)
so they tend to be the exception to many rules in the kernel....
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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 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently acro..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 10, 1:02 pm)
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..., 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)