Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures
From: Ilpo Järvinen <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-16 14:48:43
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From: Ilpo Järvinen <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-16 14:48:43
Also in:
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
We've been through that already. If it's a busy-wait it should use cpu_relax.
I looked around a bit by using some command lines and ended up wondering if these are equal to busy-wait case (and should be fixed) or not: ./drivers/telephony/ixj.c 6674: while (atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite) > 0) 6675- atomic_dec(&j->DSPWrite); ...besides that, there are couple of more similar cases in the same file (with braces)... -- i.