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SubjectRe: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers
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> Noah Watkins wrote:
>>> So we can safely assume that pointer assignment will be done in an
>>> atomic manner?
>>
>> See the the comment above rcu_assign_pointer in
>> include/linux/rcupdate.h
>
> This comment only talks about ordering, not about atomicity.
Ahh, yeh that's true.

>
> Again, AFAIR the ISO C spec should explain what is going to be
> guaranteed atomic and what might not be atomic.
This seems likely. I wonder if there are any strange architectures
out there that have some insane implementation.

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