atomic_clear_mask() on PPC ?

Simon Vallet svallet at gmail.com
Sat Dec 16 06:58:12 EST 2006


On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:08:19 -0500
Jimi Xenidis <jimix at watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> powerpc 32-bit seems to have it:
>    arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S _GLOBAL 742 _GLOBAL(atomic_clear_mask)

Hmmm... I guess the grep was a bit too quick : fact is I just 
looked at include/ ;-)

> Assuming its the "thing" you actually want, since atomic_t is always  
> an int, the exact same code sequence will be fine under 64bit, I  
> guess PPc64 never needed it?

Well, I'll try with this -- thanks for the info.

Simon



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