[PATCH 7/9] arm64: Add atomic macros to assembler.h

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 26 09:05:27 PDT 2014


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:49:16PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Add an assembler macro definition 'atomic' for performing generic
> atomic operations.  Also add macro definitions for atomic_add,
> atomic_sub, atomic_inc, and atomic_dec.

Same question as before. Why are this needed?

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Catalin



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