Question about cmpxchg()

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 15:26:57 EST


Is there any way to know at build time (or even at runtime) whether the
cmpxchg() routine is atomic with respect to DMA transfers on the current
platform?

Thanks,

Alan Stern

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