Re: uses of cmpxchg/xadd in spinlock.h and rwsem.h vs. CONFIG_M386

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> Is it time to get rid of attempts to support SMP kernels that run on 386, then?
> Considering we don't actually support SMP 386, and if there is any 386 systems
> then they're going to be running custom kernels anyway.
> 

Makes sense to me.  We have never supported SMP 386 to the best of my
knowledge, and a patch to rip that out would be appreciated.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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