Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161075AbVIBV57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161076AbVIBV57 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:57:59 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:53405 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161075AbVIBV56 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:57:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050902.145747.66384453.davem@davemloft.net> To: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: ak@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <4318C884.3050607@yahoo.com.au> References: <4318C28A.5010000@yahoo.com.au> <20050902.143149.08652495.davem@davemloft.net> <4318C884.3050607@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 18 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:47:48 +1000 > So neither could currently supported atomic_t ops be shared with > userland accesses? Correct. > Then I think it would not be breaking any interface rule to do an > atomic_t atomic_cmpxchg either. Definitely for my usage it will > not be shared with userland. Ok. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/