linux-kernel - Re: [patch][rfc] rwsem: generic rwsem

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Message-ID: <20061204102537.GA30390@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:25:37 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] rwsem: generic rwsem

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:06:07AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> (resending with correct ML addresses, sorry)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch needs review and testing from the architecture guys, but
> I would like to consider it because of the obvious maintenance benefits.

Hah, very important detail: patch is on top of Mathieu Desnoyers' recent
"[PATCH 1/2] atomic.h atomic64_t standardization", which gives us
atomic_long_cmpxchg on all architectures.

Nick
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