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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:55:52 +0000
Subject: RE: write_unlock: replace clear_bit with byte store
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Christoph Lameter wrote on Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:52 PM
> +static inline void _raw_write_unlock(rwlock_t *x) {
> +	u8 *y = (u8 *)x;
> +	barrier();
> +	asm volatile ("st1.rel.nta [%0] = r0\n\t" :: "r"(y+3) : "memory" ); }

Perhaps you should make this code icc friendly by not using asm directly.
Intel compiler doesn't support asm statement.