Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 04 Sep 2001 03:29:25 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [SOLVED + PATCH]: documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs on parisc architecture | | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:25:24 +0200
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:04:54AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I can also almost guarentee you that the x86 will sometimes not > execute these bitops atomically on SMP. It's not needed when you have another lock to protect and don't have interrupt threads.
I agree completely, so therefore if moving to non-atomic bitops is an option that would be a great way to fix this reiserfs bug.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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