[PATCH] powerpc: Use lwarx hint bit in spinlocks

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:40:34AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> In the off chance that someone actually does an SMP 44x, I think the hint bit
>> here would just be ignored (I could test possibly if we want to verify).
>> However, I thought the FSL parts didn't like toggling the reserved bits and
>> those already are SMP in some cases.
>> 
>> Kumar?
>> 
>> josh
>
>Yeah, I need to test this on some older SMP parts that didn't treated reserved bits being set in the opcode as ignored but illegal.

It looks like Anton just did a v2 of the patch targeted at ppc64 instead.

josh