linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] hvc_dcc: Fix bad code generation by marking assembly volatile

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Date:	Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:49:52 -0500
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] hvc_dcc: Fix bad code generation by marking assembly volatile

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> Without marking the asm __dcc_getstatus() volatile my compiler
> decides [...]
What compiler ? That might be a usefull information to know,
espectially 5 years from now when tracing code history. There has been
similar issue with gcc 4.5 recently. AFAIK, in the same idea, the
final change has been to mark the asm volatile.

Thanks,
 - Arnaud
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