Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/31] locking,arm64: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:04:18AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Implement FETCH-OP atomic primitives, these are very similar to the
> existing OP-RETURN primitives we already have, except they return the
> value of the atomic variable _before_ modification.
> 
> This is especially useful for irreversible operations -- such as
> bitops (because it becomes impossible to reconstruct the state prior
> to modification).
> 
> XXX lacking LSE bits

I'll cook a patch for this, but thanks for the series.

Will