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obj->active update does.
As a historical note, 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of
-24-bits of it's atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits
+24-bits of its atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits
as a spinlock for SMP safety. Sparc32 lacked a "compare and swap"
type instruction. However, 32-bit Sparc has since been moved over
to a "hash table of spinlocks" scheme, that allows the full 32-bit
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