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rust: sync: atomic: Add performance-optimal Flag type for atomic booleans
authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:16:56 +0000 (12:16 -0800)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Sun, 8 Mar 2026 10:06:49 +0000 (11:06 +0100)
commitec6fc66ac39b1a6c0b06a828eff8d21928e56b60
tree4d689768bb7c6516985c8ecd8720cd6013b854d9
parentac8f06ade38a49f7725cc219fc6e90d1d4708d2b
rust: sync: atomic: Add performance-optimal Flag type for atomic booleans

Add AtomicFlag type for boolean flags.

Document when AtomicFlag is generally preferable to Atomic<bool>: in
particular, when RMW operations such as xchg()/cmpxchg() may be used
and minimizing memory usage is not the top priority. On some
architectures without byte-sized RMW instructions, Atomic<bool> can be
slower for RMW operations.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260129122622.3896144-2-tomo@aliasing.net
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303201701.12204-9-boqun@kernel.org
rust/kernel/sync/atomic.rs
rust/kernel/sync/atomic/predefine.rs