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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:35:19 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> I made used_math a char at the light of later patches. per-cpu atomicity
> with byte granularity is provided by all archs AFIK.

Older Alpha's need to read-modify-write a word to implement
byte ops.