Tonnerre wrote:

> The following patch implements atomic operations for NetBSD, but only
> for i386, alpha, and PowerPC based architectures. The generic way for
> architectures that don't support to execute those functions in an atomic
> fashion would be to lock, execute the functions, and unlock. Sure, this
> sucks, but well.
> 
> (Unless the architecture doesn't support SMP either, in which case we
> can just execute the operations)

We want atomic ops for UP as well, as we can still take interrupts in
the middle of these operations.

Simon.
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