Re: [PATCH 2/2] atomic: move atomic_add_unless to generic code

[Arun Sharma]

On 5/31/11 1:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:10, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > This is in preparation for more generic atomic
> > primitives based on __atomic_add_unless.
>
> i think you might have to have those primitives in place before this
> patch makes sense.  the only thing this does is hoist a single
> comparison out of arch atomic.h's and into linux/atomic.h.  this
> savings alone looks simply like over engineering to me.

Some of the context is buried in the lkml-reference. The main motivation 
for the patch is commit 686a7e3.

The idea is to move atomic_add_unless_return() into linux/atomic.h

 -Arun

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