On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:09:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All the atomic operations have their arguments the wrong way around; > > s/wrong/other/? Nah, I find they really are the wrong way around. I forever write: atomic_add(&v, val); and then have the compiler yell at me. > > make atomic_fetch_or() consistent and flip them. > > BTW, there are a few other inconsistencies: > > atomic_add_unless() > atomic_cmpxchg() > atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() > atomic_set() > atomic_xchg > > git grep "\<atomic_.*atomic_t\>.*\<int\>" Yes, but fixing those will be much more pain :/ atomic_fetch_or() was freshly introduced and only has a few callers, furthermore, the following patches would require it to be in line with the other atomic_$op() due to them all being generated from the same 'template'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
