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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:46:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: PERFORCE change 21259 for review
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021119104607.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211190735.gAJ7ZMDS059613@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 19-Nov-2002 Juli Mallett wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=21259
> 
> Change 21259 by jmallett@jmallett_luna on 2002/11/18 23:35:03
> 
>       Too much unatomic clutter.  Fill in atomic_set_{int,long}, as
>       they're the basis for most everything else, and other stuff can
>       be added as it's actually needed.

Uh, you do know that atomic_set are actually OR-operations, not assignment.
Right?  Also, your operations do not look atomic as it seems to be a three
instruction sequence of load/modify/store.  Imagine an interrupt coming in
in between the load and store.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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