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From:
Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>
Subject:
Re: Shift several proc.h fields out of SCHED_LOCK
To:
Tim Leslie <tleslie@protonmail.com>
Cc:
"tech@openbsd.org" <tech@openbsd.org>
Date:
Sun, 2 Nov 2025 14:41:54 +0000

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> [...] as byte stores are atomic by nature.

They aren't necessarily. Some platforms (e.g. alpha) are not able to
perform smaller-than-32-bit load and stores atomically.