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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-25 00:38:26 -0600 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-25 00:38:26 -0600 |
| commit | b1e50ebcf24668e57f058deb48b0704b5391ed0f (patch) | |
| tree | 17e1b69b249d0738317b732186340c9dd053f1a1 /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | |
| parent | 0c2a2ae32793e3500a15a449612485f5d17dd431 (diff) | |
| parent | 7e125f7b9cbfce4101191b8076d606c517a73066 (diff) | |
Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-spi
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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt index 396bec3b74e..ac4d4718712 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ counter decrement would not become globally visible until the obj->active update does. As a historical note, 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of -24-bits of it's atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits +24-bits of its atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits as a spinlock for SMP safety. Sparc32 lacked a "compare and swap" type instruction. However, 32-bit Sparc has since been moved over to a "hash table of spinlocks" scheme, that allows the full 32-bit |