Re: test_and_set_bit() not atomic forever? [cli/sti in char/vt.c [patch]]

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 11:39:07 +0100

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>After reading Pavel sentence I looked the MIPS implementation and it didn'
>t seem so atomic for SMP (but I didn' t looked also asm-mips/smp.h...), so

SMP isn't supported on MIPS so this is no big deal.

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