Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
[...]
> And nope, not really. It does use plain stores to page->flags, and I agree
> that it is ugly, but if the page was locked before calling it, all the
> stores will be with the PG_lock bit set - and even plain stores _are_
> documented to be atomic on x86 (and on all other reasonable architectures
> too).
Even unaligned stores?
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