[PATCH v10 00/17] powerpc: "paca->soft_enabled" based local atomic operation implementation

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 16:02:20 AEDT 2017


On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:25:40 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Local atomic operations are fast and highly reentrant per CPU counters.
> Used for percpu variable updates. Local atomic operations only guarantee
> variable modification atomicity wrt the CPU which owns the data and
> these needs to be executed in a preemption safe way.

As we've been discussing offline, these are all

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Nick


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