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Herbert Xu writes: > Can you find an actual atomic_read code snippet there that is > broken without the volatile modifier? There are some in arch-specific code, for example line 1073 of arch/mips/kernel/smtc.c. On mips, cpu_relax() is just barrier(), so the empty loop body is ok provided that atomic_read actually does the load each time around the loop. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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