Re: [SOLVED + PATCH]: documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:52:04 +0100 (BST)

> I can also almost guarentee you that the x86 will sometimes not
> execute these bitops atomically on SMP.

unaligned operations are indeed generally not atomic on x86.

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