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

> [...] 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.