Re: [PATCH] x86 bitops.h commentary on instruction reordering

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 06:17:04PM +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> So, is there any way to workaround this problem, i.e. prevent bit 
> operations reordering on non-x86 architectures? Some kinds of memory 
> barriers?

Memory barriers, yes, smp_mb(), rmb, wmb and friends.
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