Re: [RFC][PATCH 23/24] atomic: Collapse all atomic_{set,clear}_mask definitions

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 12:27:56 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 02:42:56PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> The obvious question though is whether we have an established name for this
> operation elsewhere in the kernel, and whether we should have consistency.

Consistency is good.

> In include/linux, we already have (grepping for 'and_*not'):
>
> include/linux/nodemask.h:#define nodes_andnot(dst, src1, src2) \
> include/linux/bitmap.h:extern int __bitmap_andnot(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
> include/linux/cpumask.h:static inline int cpumask_andnot(struct cpumask *dstp,
>
> We also have:
>
> include/linux/signal.h:#define _sig_andn(x,y) ((x) & ~(y))
>
> which seems to be the only instance of "andn" in include/.

How about I rename the _sig_andn one to _sig_andnot, and go with
atomic_andnot, to match the *mask functions.

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