Re: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers

[Noah Watkins]

> So we can safely assume that pointer assignment will be done in an
> atomic manner?

See the the comment above rcu_assign_pointer in
include/linux/rcupdate.h

-noah

> -Leo.

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