Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote: > atomic_cmpxchg should be available on all platforms. Two points: (1) If it's using spinlocks, then it's pointless to use atomic_cmpxchg. (2) atomic_t is a 32-bit type, and on a 64-bit platform I will want a 64-bit type so that I can stick the owner address in there (I've got a second variant not yet released). David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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