On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:38:12AM +, David Laight wrote:
> From: Andrzej Hajda
> > Sent: 09 December 2022 15:49
> >
> > The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> > one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> > is not required, so xchg seems to
From: Andrzej Hajda
> Sent: 09 December 2022 15:49
>
> The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
> such cases. Since name xchg is already in
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 08:56:28PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:48:39PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
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> > I hope there will be place for such tiny helper in kernel.
> > Quick cocci analyze shows there is probably few thousands places
> > where it could be used, of
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:48:39PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
> such cases. Since name xchg is al
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022, at 16:48, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
> such cases. Since name xchg is already in us
