On 09/05/2014 01:14 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > Here's how I read the two statements. > > First, the commit message: > > "It [this commit] documents that CPUs [supported by the Linux kernel] > _must provide_ atomic one-byte and two-byte naturally aligned loads and stores." > > Second, in the body of the document: > > "The Linux kernel no longer supports pre-EV56 Alpha CPUs, because these > older CPUs _do not provide_ atomic one-byte and two-byte loads and stores." > Does this apply in general or only to SMP configurations? I guess non-SMP configurations would still have problems if interrupted in the wrong place... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
