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Jerry Jiang wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:32:23 -0400 > Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> It seems like this would fall more into the case of the arch providing >>> guarantees when using locked/atomic access rather than anything >>> SMP-related, no?. >> But if you're not using SMP, the only way you get a race condition is if your >> compiler is reordering instructions that have side effects which are invisible >> to the compiler. This can happen with MMIO registers, but it's not an issue >> with an atomic_t we're declaring in real memory. >> > > Under non-SMP, some compilers would reordering instructions as they think > and C standard informally guarantees all operations on volatile data > are executed in the sequence in which they appear in the source code, > right? > > So no reordering happens with volatile, right? Plenty of reordering happens with volatile, but on VLIW, EPIC, and similar architectures, it ensures that accesses to the variable in question will not be compiled into instruction slots that can execute simultaneously. -- Chris - 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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