On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:43:21AM +0800, yili0568@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, everybody: > Does MIPS need the functions atomic_set_mask and atomic_clear_mask? > Or how can I implement these functions. No, it doesn't need them. a quick grep would have shown that all users are either other architectures or architecture-specific code. As for a possible implementation, there are plenty of examples in <asm/bitops.h> and <asm/atomic.h> that would need only minor modification. Ralf