Re: cmpxchg and x86 flags output

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/21/16 10:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/21/16 02:06, David Howells wrote:
>>
>> However, there's probably not a great deal of difference to be had if the
>> inline asm codes the appropriate instruction in each case for something like
>> x86*.  The emitted code ought to look the same.  The second biggest win for
>> the intriniscs, I think, is the ability to ask the CMPXCHG instruction whether
>> it actually did anything rather than comparing the result.  I added two
>> variants, one that only returned the yes/no and one that passed back the value
>> as well as the yes/no.
>>
> 
> Right, and we want that either way.  The API change that you are
> proposing is definitely what we want; the specifics of the x86
> implementation is sort of orthogonal.
> 

So how do we make this move forward?

	-hpa