linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] ACPI, APEI patches for 2.6.37

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Message-ID: <20101022115756.GD10456@basil.fritz.box>
Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:57:56 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] ACPI, APEI patches for 2.6.37

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:08AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> > [PATCH 2/9] Add lock-less version of bitmap_set/clear
> > [PATCH 3/9] lock-less NULL terminated single list implementation
> > [PATCH 4/9] lock-less general memory allocator
> 
> What kinds of tests has this lockless lib code been subject to?
> This is generic code, does it play on multiple architectures?

cmpxchg is universal these days, so it should be ok everywhere.

-Andi
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