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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] atomic_read


On 11 Mar 2005, at 14:57, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Hi, I noticed that include/xen/sched.h uses _atomic_*() in a couple places, while all other Xen code uses atomic_*(). In general I think functions prefixed with an underscore are not part of the public interface...

This patch should be safe since atomic_*() just use volatile and _atomic_*() do not.

Side note: the Xen copy of atomic.h appears to be a little out of date with respect to the Linux 2.6.11 version, in which _atomic_*() is no longer present (only atomic_*() are).

The xen _atomic_* functions aren't like the old Linux ones -- they don't take a pointer to the atomic_t. We use this in the scheduler to produce better-quality code. The patch you sent won't compile because e.g., atomic_set and _atomic_set take different type parameters.

 -- Keir



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