The patch titled
Subject: arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h: fix comment
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
arch-x86-include-asm-spinlockh-fix-comment.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Subject: arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h: fix comment
This comment is no longer true. We support up to 2^16 CPUs because
__ticket_t is an u16 if NR_CPUS is larger than 256.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h~arch-x86-include-asm-spinlockh-fix-comment arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h~arch-x86-include-asm-spinlockh-fix-comment
+++ a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
* Simple spin lock operations. There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
* on the local processor, one does not.
*
- * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which are currently limited to 256
- * CPUs.
+ * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which support up to 2^16 CPUs.
*
* (the type definitions are in asm/spinlock_types.h)
*/
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard@xxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
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