Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:36:29 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it |
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Roman Zippel wrote: > > m68060 produces a trap for unaligned atomic access, unfortunately standard > alignment is smaller than this.
Umm. on 68060, since it's 32-bit, you'd only have the 32-bit case. Are you saying that you can't do a 32-bit atomic access at any 32-bit aligned boundary? Or are you saying that gcc aligns normal 32-bit entities at 16-bit alignment? Neither of those sound very likely.
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