[LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow to compile on archs without	atomic	support
    Cyril Hrubis 
    chrubis@suse.cz
       
    Wed Jan 10 12:09:46 CET 2018
    
    
  
Hi!
> What if we made general implementation with some locking? It would be
> slower, but I think we don't use atomics that much for it to matter.
Atomic increment was easiest way how to make the test library thread
safe I wasn't concerned with speed at all. But that is not true for the
CVE tests which use atomic operation to synchronize threads to trigger
races.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
    
    
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