Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:54:32 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use local_t for page statistics |
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 03:52, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > No. On many load/store architectures there is no good way to do local_t, > > so something like ppc32 or ia64 just uses all atomic operations for > > well, they're just broken and need to be fixed to not do that.
I tried to use local_t on ia64 for page statistics and have to agree with Nick. local_t has highly arch specific semantics.
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