Understanding the Low-Level Implementation of Atomic Operations in the Linux Kernel (armv8-aarch64)
Typically, a line of code like<span><span>a = a + 1</span></span> translates into three assembly instructions: ldr x0, &aadd x0,x0,#1str x0,&a That is, (1) read the variable a from memory into the X0 register, (2) add 1 to the X0 register, (3) write the value of X0 back to memory a. Since there are three instructions, … Read more