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    x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b() · 69237f94
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Rewrite cmpxchg8b() to not use %edi register but a generic "+m"
    constraint, to increase compiler freedom in code generation and
    possibly better code.
    
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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