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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:51:56 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:29 +0100
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> Well, if you insist on having it again:
> 
> Waiting for atomic value to be zero:
> 
>         while (atomic_read(&x))
>                 continue;
> 

and this I would say is buggy code all the way.

Not from a pure C level semantics, but from a "busy waiting is buggy"
semantics level and a "I'm inventing my own locking" semantics level.

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