On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Jun Sun wrote: > > No need to -- no sane interrupt handler will ever access a user's atomic > > variable. > > OK, I have to reveal the secret desire :-). I have a patch > that makes MIPS kernel preemptible, and that unprotected operation > becomes very volunerable with the preemptible patch. I see. But why not to keep the MIPS_ATOMIC update together with the patch then? It doesn't look like such a patch is going into the official kernel anytime soon. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
