[parisc-linux] ldcw in __pthread_acquire

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:32:12PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:
> 
> Matthew> Can we move the __spinlock to be the first element of the
> Matthew> struct, and then mark the struct as requiring 16-byte
> Matthew> alignment?  i have the feeling this might `just work', since
> Matthew> most structs will be allocated at 16-byte-aligned addresses
> Matthew> anyway.
> 
> We probably cannot, we can however create our own version of the
> header file for the parisc port.

That was what I meant.  the question is, would it _work_?  Or is this
struct embedded in other structs at non-16byte-aligned positions?

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