09 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • On 64bit, local_t is of size long, and thus we make local64_t an alias.
    On 32bit, we fall back to atomic64_t. (architecture can provide optimized
    32-bit version)

    (This new facility is to be used by perf events optimizations.)

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra