Re: [SOLVED + PATCH]: documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 05:52:04 EST

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> I can also almost guarentee you that the x86 will sometimes not
> execute these bitops atomically on SMP.

unaligned operations are indeed generally not atomic on x86.

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