linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

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Message-ID: <46C2FB81.8040307@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:11:29 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ak@...e.de, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, wensong@...ux-vs.org, horms@...ge.net.au,
	wjiang@...ilience.com, cfriesen@...tel.com, zlynx@....org,
	rpjday@...dspring.com, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	segher@...nel.crashing.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all
 architectures

I wrote:
> static inline void A(atomic_t *a)
> {
> 	int b = atomic_read(a);
> 	if (b)
> 		do_something_time_consuming();
> }
> 
> static inline void B(atomic_t *a)
> {
> 	int b = atomic_read(a);
> 	if (b)
> 		do_something_more();
> }
> 
> static void C(atomic_t *a)
> {
> 	A(a);
> 	B(b);
	/* ^ typo */
	B(a);
> }
> 
> Would this need forget(a) after A(a)?
> 
> (Is the latter actually answered in C99 or is it compiler-dependent?)


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