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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:02:09 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:48:54PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>
> >Can you find an actual atomic_read code snippet there that is
> >broken without the volatile modifier?
>
> A whole bunch of atomic_read uses will be broken without the volatile
> modifier once we start removing barriers that aren't needed if volatile
> behavior is guaranteed.
Could you please cite the file/function names so we can
see whether removing the barrier makes sense?
Thanks,
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