Subject: Re: pointer atomicity
To: Chapman Flack <nblists@anastigmatix.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2006 21:27:01 
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:18:27PM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Is there any port where the simple read or simple write
> of a single pointer is nonatomic?

i386 when the data is misaligned and crosses a page boundary and the
second read faults.

	David

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