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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:25:37 +0100
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] rwsem: generic rwsem
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:06:07AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> (resending with correct ML addresses, sorry)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch needs review and testing from the architecture guys, but
> I would like to consider it because of the obvious maintenance benefits.

Hah, very important detail: patch is on top of Mathieu Desnoyers' recent
"[PATCH 1/2] atomic.h atomic64_t standardization", which gives us
atomic_long_cmpxchg on all architectures.

Nick