Re: [PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX

[H. Peter Anvin]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Unless there a rationale for this, I think these be changed to LOCK_PREFIX
> > too.
> >
> > grep "lock ;" include/asm-x86/spinlock.h
> >          "lock ; cmpxchgw %w1,%2\n\t"
> >   asm volatile("lock ; xaddl %0, %1\n"
> >          "lock ; cmpxchgl %1,%2\n\t"
>
> Ack.

Full patch series applied to tip:x86/alternatives; we'll migrate it to 
tip:x86/urgent for upstream delivery after some testing.

	-hpa
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