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* 386/smp issue with atomic_add_return()
@ 2006-04-12  2:13 lepton
  2006-04-12  3:04 ` Joshua Hudson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: lepton @ 2006-04-12  2:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkm

Hi
	Is there any smp box with 386 cpu?
	If it exist, then I think atomic_add_return has a problem.
	Just disabling local interrupts can not keep another cpu from entering this function.
	What do you think about this?

	This is the code (copied from 2.6.16.4):

	#ifdef CONFIG_M386
 no_xadd: /* Legacy 386 processor */
        local_irq_disable();
        __i = atomic_read(v);
        atomic_set(v, i + __i);
        local_irq_enable();
        return i + __i;
	#endif

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* Re: 386/smp issue with atomic_add_return()
  2006-04-12  2:13 386/smp issue with atomic_add_return() lepton
@ 2006-04-12  3:04 ` Joshua Hudson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joshua Hudson @ 2006-04-12  3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lepton, linux-kernel

On 4/11/06, lepton <ytht.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>         Is there any smp box with 386 cpu?
>         If it exist, then I think atomic_add_return has a problem.
>         Just disabling local interrupts can not keep another cpu from entering this function.
>         What do you think about this?
>
>         This is the code (copied from 2.6.16.4):
>
>         #ifdef CONFIG_M386
>  no_xadd: /* Legacy 386 processor */
>         local_irq_disable();
>         __i = atomic_read(v);
>         atomic_set(v, i + __i);
>         local_irq_enable();
>         return i + __i;
>         #endif

If such a box exists (and I doubt), it is not a commody PC.
First x86 SMP motherboard I heard of was a P1 with two processors.

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