From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] Implement always-locked bit ops,
	for memory shared with an SMP hypervisor.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 05:55:34 +0200
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On Thursday 03 August 2006 03:25, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Good idea. This will also make it easier to support this special 
> functionality. And it will avoid use in contexts where these are
> not necessary.

I think it's a bad idea. We don't want lots of architecture ifdefs
in some Xen specific file

-Andi