Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

Russell King writes:

> Why can't we just use atomic_t for this?

On 64-bit platforms, atomic_t tends to be 4 bytes, whereas bitops work
on arrays of unsigned long, i.e. multiples of 8 bytes.  We could
use atomic_long_t for this, however.

Paul.
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- [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment
  - From: David Howells <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment
  - From: Russell King <[email protected]>

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