Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262692AbVDHFJR (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 01:09:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262691AbVDHFJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 01:09:16 -0400 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:53508 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262688AbVDHFJB (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 01:09:01 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:08:14 +1000 To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: akpm@osdl.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] Message-ID: <20050408050814.GA32722@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20050408033246.GA31344@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112932354.28858.192.camel@uganda> <20050408035052.GA31451@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112932969.28858.194.camel@uganda> <20050408040237.GA31761@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112934088.28858.199.camel@uganda> <20050408041724.GA32243@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112936127.28858.206.camel@uganda> <20050408045302.GA32600@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112937116.28858.212.camel@uganda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1112937116.28858.212.camel@uganda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 24 On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:11:56AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Yes but what will go wrong on uni-processor MIPS when you don't do the > > sync in atomic_sub_return? > > Sync synchornizes cached mamory access, > without it new value may be stored only into cache, > but not into memory. I know, the same thing holds for most architectures, including i386. However, this is not an issue for uni-processor kernels anywhere else, so what's so special about MIPS? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/