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Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism


On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:39:03AM +0100, Richard J Moore wrote:
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> that's a very good point. cmpxchg is not always considered for atomic
> storing, though one does have to handle the complication of crossing page
> boundaries.

The CPU cancels and restarts the instruction in this case and everything is 
atomic again.

-Andi


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