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SubjectRe: bit fields && data tearing
On 09/08/2014 12:09 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
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> Um, I think you need to re-read the thread; that's not what I said at
> all. It's even written lower down: "PA can't do atomic bit sets (no
> atomic RMW except the ldcw operation) it can do atomic writes to
> fundamental sizes (byte, short, int, long) provided gcc emits the
> correct primitive". The original question was whether atomicity
> required native bus width access, which we currently assume, so there's
> no extant problem.
>

The issue at hand was whether or not partially overlapped (but natually
aligned) writes can pass each other. *This* is the aggressive
relaxation to which I am referring.

I would guess that that is a very unusual constraint.

-hpa



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