Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:18:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb: Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger 2.6.27-rc4 released |
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > No, I haven't seen the drafts
Ok, I have looked at the draft now, and I don't think I was overly pessimistic.
If I read it right, all the memory ordering operations are defined for _single_ objects. So if you want to do the kernel kind of memory ordering where you specify ordering requirements independently of the actual accesses (perhaps because the accesses are in some helper function that doesn't care, but then you want to "finalize" the thing by stating a sequence point), it seems to be impossible with current drafts.
Oh, well. Nothing lost. I didn't expect the thing to work.
Linus
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