linux-kernel - RE: Control Dependencies vs C Compilers

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Date:   Tue, 6 Oct 2020 15:07:41 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: RE: Control Dependencies vs C Compilers

> Please go read memory-barriers.txt for a bunch of other examples.

My brain hurts.
It's not as though I've not known about most of this since
the first SMP capable SPARC cpus that had a 'store buffer'.
(Probably 30 years ago.)

I sometimes wonder whether compiling things like the kernel
requires a compiler mode that defaults everything (except
function locals) to 'volatile'.
Although that still does fix control dependencies.

	David

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