Chris Wright wrote: > * James Morris (jmorrisat_private) wrote: > > > Ok, this is the same thing I dug up. Register size assignments are > guaranteed atomic. Well praise God for that; I originally wrote my code assuming that. Greg KH's comment that they _aren't_ threw me for a loop (although it's very plausible - so many things ARE different between architectures). I'd like to document the assumption ("aligned pointer assignments are atomic") as a comment in the code, with an "authoritative as possible" source for this assertion. Can anyone tell me WHERE they got that information, preferably a very authoritative source? Or at least, identify platforms where they can be SURE it's true? Conversely, can anyone (ESPECIALLY Greg KH!) tell me any architecture this assumption is NOT true on, or where I could go to find such? Googling last night didn't really get me anywhere. I could download every processor and bus spec, but that would be a multi-year research project :-(. --- David A. Wheeler dwheelerat_private _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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