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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:25:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well yeah, but I think he did that because of some unrelated parisc borkage.

It's simply impossible to implement cmpxchg() in the general case on
parisc.  This was hashed out in great detail recently ...