From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 11:39:53 +1000
> I'm not even completely certain bytes are safe to be honest, though > probably more than bitfields. I'll poke our compiler people. Older Alpha only has 32-bit and 64-bit loads and stores, so byte sized accesses are not atomic, and therefore use racey read-modify-write sequences. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev