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Paul E. McKenney writes:

> If the generic implementation is needed only on !SMP systems, that
> could work.  The architectures I would be worried about include
> powerpc and ia64, which I believe support 32-bit SMP builds.

32-bit powerpc doesn't have 64-bit atomic operations and does support
SMP.

What about ARM?  I thought they had 32-bit SMP these days as well.

Paul.