Re: atomic read in atomic_ops(9)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 01:01:01AM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> I encounter situations where I'd like to read a 64 bits value
> atomically under a 32 bits platform (canonical example is Xen
> balloon(4)), yet the current atomic_ops(9) functions do not provide
> a stub for it.

Well, there is no general way to do atomic reads of 64bit values.
On x86, it is only possible with Pentium and newer systems (having
the cmpxchg extension). Other platforms are even more restrictive...

Joerg