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| author | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-05-21 21:27:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-05-21 21:27:26 +0200 |
| commit | ee9a3607fb03e804ddf624544105f4e34260c380 (patch) | |
| tree | ce41b6e0fa10982a306f6c142a92dbf3c9961284 /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | |
| parent | b492e95be0ae672922f4734acf3f5d35c30be948 (diff) | |
| parent | d515e86e639890b33a09390d062b0831664f04a2 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
fs/ext3/fsync.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |