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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:28:50 +0000
Subject: Re: write_unlock: replace clear_bit with byte store
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>>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:19:20 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> said:

  Christoph> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Mosberger wrote:
  >> Let's not reintroduce in-line asm, please?

  Christoph> How do I do a nta store without inline asm?

You add a new intrinsic?

  Christoph> There is already lots of inline asm in spinlock.h.

spinlock.h is special because it performs non-standard calls to the
out-of-line spinlock contention-handler, but those places are enclosed
inside ASM_SUPPORTED.

	--david