Re: [RFC patch 23/27] Immediate Values - Powerpc Optimization NMI MCE support

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 19:15:40 EST


Mathieu Desnoyers writes:

> Use an atomic update for immediate values.

What is meant by an "atomic" update in this context? AFAICS you are
using memcpy, which is not in any way guaranteed to be atomic.

Paul.
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