On Thursday 25 August 2016 12:45 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:59:51 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
Local atomic operations are fast and highly reentrant per CPU counters.
Used for percpu variable updates. Local atomic operations only guarantee
variable modification atomicity wrt the CPU which owns the data and
these needs to be executed in a preemption safe way.
This is looking really nice. I like how you're able to specify
the mask nicely in the handler, and test the mask without adding
any instructions to fastpaths.
Thanks.
So far, I only have a few trivial nitpicks as you can see. I'll
apply the series and give it a more careful look tomorrow.
Yes. Please.
Also, just noticed that i broke the Booke build, will fix that and
respin it right away.
Thanks for the review
Maddy
Thanks,
Nick
