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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:05:53 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 02:01:51PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> If it's defined, then we could consider using cmpxchg64 to build atomic64
> instead of the locks. But even then, I'm not sure we're really helping
> anybody out in practice.

yeah, most 64bit archs have more atomics or ll/sc and would not use it
anyway I suppose.