Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...>
Glommer posted a set of patches the other day to implement x86-64
paravirt, which unifies lots of things including spinlocks. But if
you've removed the need to diddle with sti/cli, then that works too...
J
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