On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:18:00PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > Live is tough, use caches ;-) > > > > oh yes it is. But I would only understand what was > > my problem using the mixed cache modes... > > Note that ll/sc sequences don't work as expected on uncached memory, so > atomic accesses are not going to work in the kernel memory in your > configuration. This may cause arbitrary corruptions due to an > inconsistent state of the kernel. Uniprocessor systems are usually get away with it but it's not something real software should rely on. Ralf
