On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Shraddha Kamat <[email protected]> wrote: > what is the relation between atomic operations and memory alignment ? > > I read from UTLK that "an unaligned memory access is not atomic" > > please explain me , I am not able to get the relationship between > memory alignment and atomicity of the operation.
Not all CPUs support unaligned memory access, such an access may cause a fault which needs to be fixed by the kernel... -- Thanks, //richard _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
