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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:

Matthew> Can we move the __spinlock to be the first element of the
Matthew> struct, and then mark the struct as requiring 16-byte
Matthew> alignment?  i have the feeling this might `just work', since
Matthew> most structs will be allocated at 16-byte-aligned addresses
Matthew> anyway.

We probably cannot, we can however create our own version of the
header file for the parisc port.

Jes
(yuck yuck, I just hate linuxthreads)