Re: [PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> Unless there a rationale for this, I think these be changed to LOCK_PREFIX
> too.
> 
> grep "lock ;" include/asm-x86/spinlock.h
>          "lock ; cmpxchgw %w1,%2\n\t"
>   asm volatile("lock ; xaddl %0, %1\n"
>          "lock ; cmpxchgl %1,%2\n\t"

Ack.

		Linus
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