Re: td->td_critnest manipulations do not use atomic_add_int ?

Luigi Rizzo wrote:

>as in the subject... i see that td->td_critnest (used to determine
>whether a thread can be preempted or not) is manipulated using
>plain ++ or -- instruction instead of the atomic_add_int().
>
>I wonder if declaring it as volatile and possibly its
>usage patterns are enough to make the two things equivalent
>on all architectures.
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is td ever != curthread?

>cheers
>luigi
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