Re: [PATCH] mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 05:49:35 EST


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> FWIW: if the architecture selects ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF, then a spinlock_t
> is 32-bit (assuming that unsigned int is also 32-bit).

Linux already assumes (unsigned) int is 32-bit.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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