Nick Piggin wrote on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:36 PM > Hmm, not sure. Maybe a few new bitops with _lock / _unlock postfixes? > For page lock and buffer lock we'd just need test_and_set_bit_lock, > clear_bit_unlock, smp_mb__after_clear_bit_unlock. > > I don't know, _for_lock might be a better name. But it's getting long. I think kernel needs all 4 variants: clear_bit clear_bit_lock clear_bit_unlock clear_bit_fence And the variant need to permutated on all other bit ops ... I think it would be indeed a better API and be more explicit about the ordering. - Ken - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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