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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
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In message <20020909131744.G10583@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> you write:
> Rusty wrote:
> > Yeah, but you can still leave a spinlock uninitialized, and it'll
> > work.
>
> If your architecture has load-and-zero as its only atomic primitive,
> leaving spinlocks uninitialised will _not_ work ;-)

<sigh>

Context: static initializers. ie. you can use dynamic initialization
on your spinlocks.

Rusty.
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