[PATCH 02/14] ARM: bitops: switch set/clear/change bitops to use ldrex/strex

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Jan 25 14:51:18 EST 2011


* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [110117 11:23]:
> Switch the set/clear/change bitops to use the word-based exclusive
> operations, which are only present in a wider range of ARM architectures
> than the byte-based exclusive operations.

This too been in use for about a week now with ext3 and nfs:

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>



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