Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The return value isn't the value of the atomic variable. > > The return value is whether the increment happened or not (ie the "was it not zero and > could be incremented" part?) Okay, fair enough. I was thinking of it as atomic_long_inc_return() - which obviously it isn't. David -- 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