Re: question on atomic_t

Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:32:47 +0100


> can I assume that a member of a structure of type atomic_t is 0 after
> using memset to zero on the structure ?

You must not do this. use atomic_init instead. on parisc, the locked value
of a spinlock is 0, so no more updates to that atomic value would ever work.

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