Re: VM fixes [4/4]

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:01:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:41:56 +0100
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > + * All archs should support atomic ops with
> > + * 1 byte granularity.
> > + */
> > +	unsigned char memdie;
> 
> Again, older Alpha's do not.

If those old cpus really supported smp in linux, then fixing this bit is
trivial, just change it to short. Do they support short at least?

Thanks.
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