[PATCH 3/3] arm64: include: asm: atomic.h: use 'unsigned int' and 'atomic_t' instead of 'unsigned long' for atomic_clear_mask()

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Oct 11 06:44:20 EDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 02:18:26AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 10:23 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Chen Gang wrote:
> >> BTW: do arm64 need atomic_clear_mask()?
> > 
> > No. Neither ARM nor arm64 need this function.
> 
> OK, thank you for your confirmation.
> 
> Hmm... can we remove atomic_clear_mask() from ARM and arm64? (in my
> opinion, if not need, better to remove it).

Yes!

I mentioned this a few times already...

Will



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