On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:34:52PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/05/2014 01:14 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > > > Here's how I read the two statements. > > > > First, the commit message: > > > > "It [this commit] documents that CPUs [supported by the Linux kernel] > > _must provide_ atomic one-byte and two-byte naturally aligned loads and > > stores." > > > > Second, in the body of the document: > > > > "The Linux kernel no longer supports pre-EV56 Alpha CPUs, because these > > older CPUs _do not provide_ atomic one-byte and two-byte loads and stores." > > > > Does this apply in general or only to SMP configurations? I guess > non-SMP configurations would still have problems if interrupted in the > wrong place...
Yes. Cheers Michael. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev