Re: improved ia64 atomic ops

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:21:15PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > What am I missing? I don't know. If folk think I'm wrong about these semantics, feel free to submit a patch. r~

improved ia64 atomic ops

Richard, in the context of internal discussions regarding target/24757 I have been made aware of a change to the sync operations on ia64, and I have problems understanding >This differs from the generic code in that we know about the zero-extending >properties of cmpxchg, and the zero-ext