On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Thanks Christoph, I think this will be required to support 386. > In the worst case, we could provide a fallback path and take > ->tree_lock in pagecache lookups if there is no atomic_cmpxchg, > however I would much prefer all architectures get an atomic_cmpxchg, > and I think it should turn out to be a generally useful primitive. > > I may trim this down to only provide what is needed for atomic_cmpxchg > if that is OK?
Do not hesitate to do whatever you need to the patch. I took what I needed from you for this patch last year too. - 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/
