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Linus Torvalds committed f4d03bd143c
smp: don't use 16-bit words for atomic accesses Yes, it should work, but it's a bad idea. Not only did ARM64 not have the 16-bit access code (there's a separate patch to add it), it's just not a good atomic type. Some architectures fundamentally don't do atomic accesses in them (alpha), and it's not like it saves any space here anyway because of structure packing issues. We normally should aim for flags to be "unsigned int" or "unsigned long". And if space is at a premium, use a single byte (although that causes problems on alpha again). There might be very special cases where a 16-byte entity is really wanted, but this is not one of them. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>