LDREX/STREX and pre-emption on SMP hardware
Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com
Mon Sep 14 15:30:51 EDT 2009
Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Apart from the switch_to and atomic_set modifications, the patch cannot
> do more harm. As for these functions, I don't see any reason why the
> modifications would not be correct but we can delay the merging until we
> are sure (anyway, the more people looking at the patch, the better).
>
Clearly, you understand the fundamentals behind my question--- and you
have a pretty satisfactory answer as well.
That's all I was after, really. Carry on. :)
b.g.
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