Commit 1c173409 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86_64: Correct wrong comment in local.h

local_t is actually a win over atomic_t because it does not need lock
prefixes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 72e76be2
......@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ static __inline__ void local_sub(unsigned long i, local_t *v)
:"ir" (i), "m" (v->counter));
}
/* On x86, these are no better than the atomic variants. */
/* On x86-64 these are better than the atomic variants on SMP kernels
because they dont use a lock prefix. */
#define __local_inc(l) local_inc(l)
#define __local_dec(l) local_dec(l)
#define __local_add(i,l) local_add((i),(l))
......
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