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From: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware@legeek.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] drm/radeon: replace pflip and sw_int counters with
	atomics
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:46:14 +0200
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>> Does the linux API mandates atomic_t to be a 32bits word?
> 
> AFAIK it is, at least for the platforms we care about.
> ...

Then, the proper course of action would be to add to the linux API, sized
atomic operation first, wouldn't it?

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Sylvain