Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 14:24:01 EST


"Michael S. Zick" <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Found in the bit-rot for 32-bit, x86, Uni-processor builds:

Actually uni processor should not use the lock prefix
because it doesn't need it; the only exception are some special
ops used in para-virtualization which are special cased.

-Andi

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