Re: [PATCH 0/9] ACPI, APEI patches for 2.6.37

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 07:58:05 EST


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:08AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> > [PATCH 2/9] Add lock-less version of bitmap_set/clear
> > [PATCH 3/9] lock-less NULL terminated single list implementation
> > [PATCH 4/9] lock-less general memory allocator
>
> What kinds of tests has this lockless lib code been subject to?
> This is generic code, does it play on multiple architectures?

cmpxchg is universal these days, so it should be ok everywhere.

-Andi
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