Re: [patch 1/2] i386: use asm() like the other atomic operationsalready do.

[Nick Piggin]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:02:23PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>
> > Herbert Xu wrote:

> > > I'm still unconvinced why we need this because nobody has
> > > brought up any examples of kernel code that legitimately
> > > need this.
> >
> > There's plenty of kernel code that *wants* this though.  If we can 
>
>
> You keep saying this yet everytime I ask for an example I
> get nothing.

Agreed. Simplest thing to do will be to post those patches which
eliminate the register-clobbering barriers, shrink binaries, etc.
for all that code that wants this.

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