tools/include/linux/atomic.h
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/include/linux/atomic.h
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/include/linux/atomic.h- Extension
.h- Size
- 801 bytes
- Lines
- 38
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
Dependency Surface
asm/atomic.h
Detected Declarations
function atomic_try_cmpxchgfunction atomic_inc_unless_negative
Annotated Snippet
#ifndef __TOOLS_LINUX_ATOMIC_H
#define __TOOLS_LINUX_ATOMIC_H
#include <asm/atomic.h>
void atomic_long_set(atomic_long_t *v, long i);
/* atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed */
#ifndef atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed
#define atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed atomic_cmpxchg
#define atomic_cmpxchg_release atomic_cmpxchg
#endif /* atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed */
static inline bool atomic_try_cmpxchg(atomic_t *ptr, int *oldp, int new)
{
int ret, old = *oldp;
ret = atomic_cmpxchg(ptr, old, new);
if (ret != old)
*oldp = ret;
return ret == old;
}
static inline bool atomic_inc_unless_negative(atomic_t *v)
{
int c = atomic_read(v);
do {
if (unlikely(c < 0))
return false;
} while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(v, &c, c + 1));
return true;
}
#endif /* __TOOLS_LINUX_ATOMIC_H */
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `asm/atomic.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function atomic_try_cmpxchg`, `function atomic_inc_unless_negative`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.