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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:55:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I think you're probably right, as long as one sticks with 4-byte
> scalars.  The cmpxchg-is-now-generic change snuck in under the radar
> (mine, at least).

Hmmm, what about unsigned longs?  (Which might be 8 bytes on some
architectures....)

					- Ted
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