On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:13 +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/14/06, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > James Stevenson wrote: > > Only the data that has been written to memory by instructions > > that came before the current instruction, eg. MOVs and other > > instructions with a memory target operand. > > > > And also, this instruction will be atomic, right ? No. For x86 you need LOCK prefix for an instruction to be atomic -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
