On Friday, September 25, 2015 01:25:49 PM Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 25 September 2015 at 13:33, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You're going to change that into bool in the next patch, right? > > Yeah. > > > So what if bool is a byte and the field is not word-aligned > > Its between two 'unsigned long' variables today, and the struct isn't packed. > So, it will be aligned, isn't it? > > > and changing > > that byte requires a read-modify-write. How do we ensure that things remain > > consistent in that case? > > I didn't understood why a read-modify-write is special here? That's > what will happen > to most of the non-word-sized fields anyway? > > Probably I didn't understood what you meant.. Say you have three adjacent fields in a structure, x, y, z, each one byte long. Initially, all of them are equal to 0. CPU A writes 1 to x and CPU B writes 2 to y at the same time. What's the result? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>