Re: [PATCH v4.4-rc7] sched: isolate task_struct bitfields according to synchronization domains

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Right, I was thinking alpha was doing rmw's for things smaller than
> 64bit.  That's 32bit, not 64.

Right. Alpha has trouble only with 8-bit and 16-bit fields. 32-bit
fields should be "atomic" on all architectures, modulo compiler bugs
(and we've had those).

                 Linus
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