Re: [patch 2/8] Implement always-locked bit ops, for memory shared with an SMP hypervisor.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 22:43:47 EST



> Thats a good goal but what about the rest of us who have to maintain
> additional forms of bit operations for all architectures. How much is this
> burden?

I don't think it's that big an issue because most architectures either
use always locked bitops already or don't need them because they don't do
SMP.

So it will be fine with just a asm-generic header that defines them
to the normal bitops. Not much burden.

-Andi
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