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Re: Is in_le32 and out_le32 atomic?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2006-12-11 06:47:59

Can anybody tell me why the spin_* protection is needed? I thought that 
32-bit read and write operations are atomic.
It doesn't seem to make sense indeed...

Ben.
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