On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> wrote:
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> Linus's patch touches __xchg() whereas we're using __cmpxchg() in this
> particular case I think.
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> At least, applying it to my 2.6.32.16 tree didn't help, last_value was
> still read-only.  Or I backported it wrong.

No, you didn't back-port it wrong. I just didn't fix the right part. I
thought the PV code used xchg, not cmpxchg, so I only patched that.
But cmpxchg has the exact same issue.

Does this fix it?

Again: UNTESTED.

                   Linus