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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300 |
| commit | 50cb993ea6cd187bfed085cb3e0747066edeb02f (patch) | |
| tree | 61edac62c6c5bc07c59e4369c50c6821ad77f2c0 /Documentation/local_ops.txt | |
| parent | 445c2714cf72817ab1ad3ca894c6d9b2047b3a3e (diff) | |
| parent | 8be1a6d6c77ab4532e4476fdb8177030ef48b52c (diff) | |
Merge ../linux-2.6
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/local_ops.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index 4269a1105b3..f4f8b1c6c8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h -in your archtecture's local.h is sufficient. +in your architecture's local.h is sufficient. The local_t type is defined as an opaque signed long by embedding an atomic_long_t inside a structure. This is made so a cast from this type to a |