From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0-test12:
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:11:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001213231155.A2690@gruyere.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001213192352.L5918@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001213192352.L5918@redhat.com>; from twaugh@redhat.com on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:23:52PM +0000
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:23:52PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> + * atomic_add - add integer to atomic variable
> + * @i: integer value to add
> + * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
> + *
> + * Atomically adds @i to @v.
Perhaps it should mention that the guaranteed useful range of atomic_t
is only 24bit ? Documentation without source would rather useless if it
didn't mention such pitfalls.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-13 19:23 Tim Waugh
2000-12-13 22:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2000-12-13 23:30 ` Tim Waugh
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