Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv

[Herbert Xu]

Chris Snook <csnook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> cpu_relax() contains a barrier, so it should do the right thing.  For 
> non-smp architectures, I'm concerned about interacting with interrupt 
> handlers.  Some drivers do use atomic_* operations.

What problems with interrupt handlers? Access to int/long must
be atomic or we're in big trouble anyway.

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