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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:42:33 -0500
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> And I don't see a problem in making the conversion from
> spinlock->rwsem only if CONFIG_XPMEM=y as I doubt XPMEM works on
> anything but ia64.
 
That is currently true but we are also working on XPMEM for x86_64.
The new XPMEM code should be posted within a few weeks.

--- jack