>no, spin_lock() must guarantee that instructions within the critical
>section only execute at one CPU at once. Ie. all effects of the critical
Without the lock on the bus reads could happen before the spin_lock().
Thus instructions into the critical section would execute on two CPUs at
the same time.
Andrea
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