On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:18 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > > cmpxchg has been used in that way by ftrace and perf for a long time. So > I agree to make it a requirement on future architecture ports. Neither mandate an architecture do this though, only that when an architecture wants to support either feature and has NMIs (not all archs have NMI equivalents) it has to be safe. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html