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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 04:10:00 -0000
To: kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SH: atomic.h fixes
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>>>>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:04:14 +0900, kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> said:

  Roland> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

  >  I see.  Nice scheme.  Please put some comments in bits/atomic.h
  > explaining it.

Perhaps a pointer to Bershad's paper might be appropriate, too:

 B.N. Bershad, D. Redell, and J. Ellis.  Fast Mutual Exclusion for
 Uniprocessors.  Proceedings of the Fifth Architectural Support for
 Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 223-233,
 October 1992.

 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/bershad/Papers/Rcs.ps

	--david