On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:53:09PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > OK, care to elucidate? Clearly I need help reading this. > > grep '2.*atomic_read' Much thanks to your detailed answer I found yet another obscure inline asm syntax 'feature'. So the "2" input operand actually sets the value of "=&d" (tmp), how creative... I would find: #define ATOMIC_OP_RETURN(op, c_op, asm_op) \ static inline int atomic_##op##_return(int i, atomic_t *v) \ { \ int t, tmp = atomic_read(v); \ \ __asm__ __volatile__( \ "1: movel %2,%1\n" \ " " #asm_op "l %3,%1\n" \ " casl %2,%1,%0\n" \ " jne 1b" \ : "+m" (*v), "=&d" (t), "+d" (tmp) \ : "g" (i)); \ return t; \ } Much more obvious. But you're right, it seems to be sorted. I'll queue a patch removing that comment. Thanks! -- 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