Re: [PATCH] bitops: add _local bitops

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/09/2012 11:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:10:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 05/09/2012 01:07 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > In practice ATM any of the above will work. We probably don't even need
> > > to add barrier() calls since what we do afterwards is apic access which
> > > has an optimization barrier anyway.  But I'm fine with adding them in
> > > there just in case if that's what people want.
> > > 
> > 
> > If you have the optimization barrier anyway, then I'd be fine with you
> > just using __test_and_clear_bit() and add to a comment in
> > arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h that KVM needs it to be locally atomic.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
>
> Sounds good. Avi?

Okay.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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