This comment is no longer true. We support up to 2^16 CPUs because
__ticket_t is an u16 if NR_CPUS is larger than 256.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Simple spin lock operations. There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
* on the local processor, one does not.
*
- * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which are currently limited to 256
- * CPUs.
+ * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which support up to 2^16 CPUs.
*
* (the type definitions are in asm/spinlock_types.h)
*/