Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1 1/4] atomic: replace atomic_compareandswap() with atomic_cmpxchg()

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 14:09 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> atomic_compareandswap() used atomic_t as the new, old and returned
> values which is less convinient than using just int.

"convenient"

diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/atomic.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/atomic.h
> index 5a38c67..29ab265 100644
> --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/atomic.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/atomic.h
> @@ -138,14 +138,6 @@ static inline void _atomic_set(atomic_t *v, int i)
> Â# error "unknown ARM variant"
> Â#endif
> Â
> -static inline atomic_t atomic_compareandswap(
> -ÂÂÂÂatomic_t old, atomic_t new, atomic_t *v)
> -{
> -ÂÂÂÂatomic_t rc;
> -ÂÂÂÂrc.counter = __cmpxchg(&v->counter, old.counter, new.counter,
> sizeof(int));
> -ÂÂÂÂreturn rc;
> -}
> -

ARM: Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>


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