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On 09/05/2014 03:05 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 02:50:31PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> On 09/05/2014 02:09 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

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>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> documentation: Record limitations of bitfields and small variables
>>>
>>> This commit documents the fact that it is not safe to use bitfields as
>>> shared variables in synchronization algorithms.  It also documents that
>>> CPUs must provide one-byte and two-byte load and store instructions
>>                    ^
>>                 atomic
> 
> Here you meant non-atomic?  My guess is that you are referring to the
> fact that you could emulate a one-byte store on pre-EV56 Alpha CPUs
> using the ll and sc atomic-read-modify-write instructions, correct?

Yes, that's what I meant. I must be tired and am misreading the commit
message, or misinterpreting it's meaning.