Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add OMAP hardware spinlock misc driver

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Right, so the problem is that there simply is no way to do atomic memory
> access from these auxiliary processing units wrt the main CPU?

Yes. There are a few relevant system-wide limitations, one of them is
that simply the system interconnect does not support those fancy
atomic operations.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/