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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:57:56 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] ACPI, APEI patches for 2.6.37
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:08AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> > [PATCH 2/9] Add lock-less version of bitmap_set/clear
> > [PATCH 3/9] lock-less NULL terminated single list implementation
> > [PATCH 4/9] lock-less general memory allocator
> 
> What kinds of tests has this lockless lib code been subject to?
> This is generic code, does it play on multiple architectures?

cmpxchg is universal these days, so it should be ok everywhere.

-Andi
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