There are other implicit data races in any X86 code. I spent a fair chunk
of my early 1.3.3x SMP work staring at strange output because of it. Notably
the dirty bit on pages is updated by the hardware and no lock in the kernel
will stop that occuring if we have ordering wrong anywhere. Dave was never
totally convinced I even got 2.0 right
Alan
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