On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:56AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > > sync in atomic_sub_return? > > Sync synchornizes cached mamory access, > without it new value may be stored only into cache, > but not into memory. I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere else, so what's so special about MIPS? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] 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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