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| author | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2010-05-24 03:52:55 +0400 |
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| committer | Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> | 2010-05-24 03:52:55 +0400 |
| commit | 1f782fee18b39b9ad438ebbd82c2915a16c879ee (patch) | |
| tree | f292930065e6c860714c134790ab8882680ac739 /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | |
| parent | 8eda2f21ed9c936a54fd7bc16cbfa5ee656635c2 (diff) | |
| parent | f4b87dee923342505e1ddba8d34ce9de33e75050 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1f782fee18b39b9ad438ebbd82c2915a16c879ee.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt index 396bec3b74ed..ac4d47187122 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 |