Re: VM fixes [1/4]

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Dec 24 2004 - 13:01:37 EST


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:35:19 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I made used_math a char at the light of later patches. per-cpu atomicity
> with byte granularity is provided by all archs AFIK.

Older Alpha's need to read-modify-write a word to implement
byte ops.
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