Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:56:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it |
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Your problem will be, of course, that any architecture that does this in > hardware will just DoTheRightThing, and as such, broken architectures with > bad locking primitives will have to test and do source-level analysis > more.
(The underlying thread here being that the workqueue stuff _should_ be safe in this regard. But the "testing will not catch bugs like these is certainly true in general)
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