PATCH powerpc Merge asm-ppc*/rwsem.h

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Fri Sep 23 17:44:13 EST 2005


> rwsems on ppc64 should really be using a 64-bit counter, not a 32-bit counter,
> otherwise you limit the maximum number of processes to 32K-ish.
> 
> The counter should be "signed long" really.

Agreed, we should move to a 64bit count.

Anton



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