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SubjectRe: spin_lock forgets to clobber memory and other smp fixes [was
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> > Well, now GCC does CSE across "asm" and will eliminate memory loads,
> > even though it may not move them! I suspect it always did CSE across
> > "asm" and we just never got hit by the bug.
>
> dummy_lock trick is equivalent to "memory" clobber.

For GCC 2.7.2 yes. For current compilers with -fstrict-aliasing, no:
the dummy_lock type doesn't alias with some other memory accesses.

Longer term the compiler may well take into account the array size.

Of course we still need the dummy_lock trick anyway.

-- Jamie
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