Re: Spinlocks may be broken.

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [001205 07:24] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> > I'm pretty sure you guys need memory barrier ops.
> 
> On a machine that requires such a thing, the assembly code for UNLOCK
> should include it.  Want to provide a patch?

My assembler is extremely rusty, you can probably find such code
in the NetBSD or Linux kernel for all the archs you want to do.
I wouldn't feel confident providing a patch, all I have is x86
hardware.

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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