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

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 16:05:48 EST


Michael S. Zick, le Fri 22 May 2009 14:53:39 -0500, a écrit :
> Ref: http://developer.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253666.pdf
> Manual page: 3-590 PDF page: 638
> Summary: Processors prior to P-4 can take an interrupt between
> the read cycle and the write cycle. Which is why opcode 0xF0 exists.

Where do you see page 638/639 talking about interrupts? It talks about
multi-processor machines.

Samuel
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