On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what is the relation between atomic operations and memory alignment ? > > I read from UTLK that "an unaligned memory access is not atomic" > > please explain me , I am not able to get the relationship between > memory alignment and atomicity of the operation. Not all CPUs support unaligned memory access, such an access may cause a fault which needs to be fixed by the kernel... -- Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
