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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:07:39 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:55:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that the "fixup" approach is not necessarily very painful at all,
> from a performance standpoint (either on 386 or on newer CPU's). It's not
> really that hard to just replace the instruction in the "undefined
> instruction"  handler by having strict rules about how to use the "xadd"
> instruction.

Fixup for user space is probably not that nice (CMPXCHG is used there by 
linuxthreads) 


-Andi