Improving atomic user pointer support
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@jaybosamiya-ms is already working on this.
Since Aug 26, 2025.
enhancement
layer-litebox
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Description
See the non-trivially large discussion between @CvvT and @jaybosamiya-ms at https://github.com/microsoft/litebox/pull/280#discussion_r2294426007
In short, our current Raw*Pointer APIs do not give enough leeway for atomic pointers to exist nicely for kernel platforms. I believe minor extensions to them would clean this scenario up, and I should have a design for this soon. Opening this issue to track it.
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