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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 16/18] x86: io: implement dummy relaxed accessor macros for writes
On 05/23/2014 07:46 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
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> I would like the relaxed accessors to be ordered with respect to each other...
>
> What do you think?
>

I think "I would like" isn't a very good motivation. What are the
semantics of these things supposed to be? It seems more than a bit odd
to require them to be ordered with respect to each other and everything
else (which is what a memory clobber does) and then call them "relaxed".

-hpa




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