On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Or did I miss something? Never mind, it's all fine. It just depends on what you define "unlocked" to be, and "old value matches high bits is unlocked" is obviously the more attractive case than the one I was thinking of ("new value matches high bits"), since it makes a zero initializer be unlocked. And it's what x86 does too. I don't know why I expected the "new value is the ticket" case. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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