Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to get the new lock bitop primitives in if possible. Maybe it
> is too late for 2.6.23, but at least if I can queue them up in -mm?
> 
> They are pretty simple, but at least the page lock and buffer lock
> conversions touch quite a lot of code. Not sure how to really do this
> better to reduce merge difficulties.

I like the way we can get away with a memory barrier before calling
clear_bit() and not have one after.

This works fine on FRV.

Now all you need to do is add the kerneldoc comments...  Contingent on that:

Acked-By: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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