Re: Reduce struct page by 8 bytes on 64bit

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 10:00:44 EST


   From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
   Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:04:27 +0200

   Sure, but you use a 64bit read/store in set_bit/clear_bit etc., right?
   
   If yes then you can't use this unless you rewrite them to use 32bit store
   - otherwise it will conflict with the atomic_t counter in the 64bit slot
   which is not protected.
   
It will be protected by the same spinlock, look at how the
thing works :-)
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