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Subjectsequence lock in Linux
Hi Paul,

(CCing lkml)

Is it just me, or the following code:

static __always_inline unsigned read_seqbegin(const seqlock_t *sl)
{
unsigned ret;

repeat:
ret = sl->sequence;
smp_rmb();
if (unlikely(ret & 1)) {
cpu_relax();
goto repeat;
}

return ret;
}

could use a ACCESS_ONCE() around the sl->sequence read ? I'm concerned about the
compiler generating code that reads the sequence number chunkwise.

The same apply to all other reads of the sequence number in seqlock.h (including
the retry code).

Thoughts ?

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com


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