Re: [PATCH] x86: avoid calling arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() atthe same time on SMP

[Ingo Molnar]

* Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 10:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar a écrit :
> 
> > Also, variables that cmpxchg or test_and_set operates on need to be long, not int.
> 
> Hmm, ok for test_and_set(), it operates on a long.
> 
> cmpxchg() is ok on an int AFAIK. If not we have to make some changes :(
> 
> btrfs_orphan_cleanup() for example does this :
> 
> 	if (cmpxchg(&root->orphan_cleanup_state, 0, ORPHAN_CLEANUP_STARTED))
> 		...
> 
> 
> Same in build_ehash_secret() (net/ipv4/af_inet.c)
> 
> 	cmpxchg(&inet_ehash_secret, 0, rnd);

You are right - cmpxchg() auto-detects the word size and thus should work on int 
too.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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