Re: Inconsistent "#ifdef __KERNEL__" on different architectures

From: Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Date: Sun May 27 2001 - 17:10:00 EST

>--- include/asm-arm/atomic.h.old Sun May 27 22:30:58 2001
>+++ include/asm-arm/atomic.h Sun May 27 22:58:20 2001
>@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> * 13-04-1997 RMK Made functions atomic!
> * 07-12-1997 RMK Upgraded for v2.1.
> * 26-08-1998 PJB Added #ifdef __KERNEL__
>+ * 27-05-2001 APB Removed #ifdef __KERNEL__
> */
> #ifndef __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
> #define __ASM_ARM_ATOMIC_H
>@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@

This is no good. The ARM kernel just doesn't provide any atomic primitives
that will work in user space. If you want atomicity you have to use
libpthread.

p.


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