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SubjectRe: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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> At least PPC32 can't do that without a spinlock_irq

We don't need to be irq-safe for this, though. Just specify it to be
process safe - which means that on UP it boils down to at most maybe
having to protect against preemption.

Linus

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