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Re: PATCH: Add memory barrier to malloc
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 03:05:24PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> H. J. Lu wrote:
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> > Are you proposing to remove locks from malloc or just use compare/swap
> > with locks? Removing locks sounds a good idea if it is feasible.
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> I means that there are memory barrier macros in atomic.h.
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I only found atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq and
atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq in sysdeps/generic/bits/atomic.h.
It is redundant to use with lock held.
H.J.