Is in_le32 and out_le32 atomic?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Dec 11 17:47:50 EST 2006


> Can anybody tell me why the spin_* protection is needed? I thought that 
> 32-bit read and write operations are atomic.

It doesn't seem to make sense indeed...

Ben.





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