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Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:16:39 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ak@...e.de,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, David Miller <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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all
 architectures

Christoph Lameter writes:

> No it does not have any volatile semantics. atomic_dec() can be reordered 
> at will by the compiler within the current basic unit if you do not add a 
> barrier.

Volatile doesn't mean it can't be reordered; volatile means the
accesses can't be eliminated.

Paul.
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