Re: [PATCH 37/40] alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var

[Max Filippov]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> 5. Assignment to a per cpu variable
>
>         DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
>         __get_cpu_var(y) = x;
>
>    Converts to
>
>         this_cpu_write(y, x);

Doesn't it actually convert to __this_cpu_write(y, x); as there were
no atomicity in the original assignment?

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max
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