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

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Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:56:52 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, horms@...ge.net.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rpjday@...dspring.com, ak@...e.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cfriesen@...tel.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, zlynx@....org, satyam@...radead.org,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, wensong@...ux-vs.org, wjiang@...ilience.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 06:24:15PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:09:13AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:59:12PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > >
> > > > gcc bugzilla bug #33102, for whatever that ends up being worth.  ;-)
> > > 
> > > I had totally forgotten that I'd already filed that bug more
> > > than six years ago until they just closed yours as a duplicate
> > > of mine :)
> > > 
> > > Good luck in getting it fixed!
> > 
> > Well, just got done re-opening it for the third time.  And a local
> > gcc community member advised me not to give up too easily.  But I
> > must admit that I am impressed with the speed that it was identified
> > as duplicate.
> > 
> > Should be entertaining!  ;-)
> 
> Right. ROTFL... volatile actually breaks atomic_t instead of making it 
> safe. x++ becomes a register load, increment and a register store. Without 
> volatile we can increment the memory directly. It seems that volatile 
> requires that the variable is loaded into a register first and then 
> operated upon. Understandable when you think about volatile being used to 
> access memory mapped I/O registers where a RMW operation could be 
> problematic.
> 
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3506

Yep.  The initial reaction was in fact to close my bug as a duplicate
of 3506.  But I was not asking for atomicity, but rather for smaller
code to be generated, so I reopened it.

							Thanx, Paul
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