Having linking problems with atomic_inc(), atomic_dec_and_test()in user app, help!

Michael Schmitz schmitz at zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Sat Jan 5 06:52:40 EST 2002


> > Another corner case seems to be IBM 405 processors that use what I think
> > is a privileged instruction as well in order to work around a hardware
> > bug.
>
> The dcbt instruction (the workaround) should not be privileged.

Thanks; anything not using syncs should be fine then?

	Michael


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