RE: Fix unlock_buffer() to work the same way as bit_unlock()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Boehm, Hans wrote:

> Somewhat improved slides for the talk Grant is referring to are at
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/pldi05_threads.pdf

Hmm.. A paper on that subject would be better. Cannot get much from the 
slides.

> It's hard to get this stuff right.  But we knew that.

Could you come up with a proposal how to correctly define and API to bit 
ops in such a way that they work for all architectures and allow us to 
utilize all the features that processors may have?
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