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Date:      Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:22:35 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: td->td_critnest manipulations do not use atomic_add_int ?
Message-ID:  <200512201422.47323.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <43A855A5.6070809@elischer.org>
References:  <20051220032538.A33093@xorpc.icir.org> <43A855A5.6070809@elischer.org>

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On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:04 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >as in the subject... i see that td->td_critnest (used to determine
> >whether a thread can be preempted or not) is manipulated using
> >plain ++ or -- instruction instead of the atomic_add_int().
> >
> >I wonder if declaring it as volatile and possibly its
> >usage patterns are enough to make the two things equivalent
> >on all architectures.
>
> is td ever != curthread?

No.

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