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+/* Linuxthreads - a simple clone()-based implementation of Posix        */
+/* threads for Linux.                                                   */
+/* Copyright (C) 1996 Xavier Leroy (Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr) and          */
+/* Richard Henderson (rth@tamu.edu)                                     */
+/*                                                                      */
+/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or        */
+/* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License  */
+/* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2       */
+/* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.               */
+/*                                                                      */
+/* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,      */
+/* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of       */
+/* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the        */
+/* GNU Library General Public License for more details.                 */
+
+/* Spin locks */
+
+static inline void acquire(int * spinlock)
+{
+  while (testandset(spinlock)) __sched_yield();
+}
+
+static inline void release(int * spinlock)
+{
+#ifndef RELEASE
+  *spinlock = 0;
+#else
+  RELEASE(spinlock);
+#endif
+}