LDREX/STREX and pre-emption on SMP hardware

Catalin Marinas wrote:

Apart from the switch_to and atomic_set modifications, the patch cannot
do more harm. As for these functions, I don't see any reason why the
modifications would not be correct but we can delay the merging until we
are sure (anyway, the more people looking at the patch, the better).
  

Clearly, you understand the fundamentals behind my question--- and you 
have a pretty satisfactory answer as well.

That's all I was after, really.  Carry on.  :)


b.g.

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