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SubjectRe: readl/writel and memory barriers
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:35:06 -0800, 
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote:
>Making a variable volatile doesn't guarantee that the compiler won't
>reorder references to it, AFAIK. And on some platforms, even uncached
>I/O references aren't necessarily ordered.

Ignoring the issue of hardware that reorders I/O, volatile accesses
must not be reordered by the compiler. From a C9X draft (1999, anybody
have the current C standard online?) :-

5.1.2.3 [#2]

Accessing a volatile object, modifying an object, modifying a file,
or calling a function that does any of those operations are all side
effects which are changes in the state of the execution environment.
Evaluation of an expression may produce side effects. At certain
specified points in the execution sequence called sequence points,
all side effects of previous evaluations shall be complete and no
side effects of subsequent evaluations shall have taken place.

5.1.2.3 [#6]

The least requirements on a conforming implementation are:

-- At sequence points, volatile objects are stable in the sense
that previous accesses are complete and subsequent accesses have
not yet occurred.

The compiler may not reorder volatile accesses across sequence points.

volatile int *a, *b;
int c;

c = *a + *b; // no sequence point, access order to a, b is undefined

c = *a; // compiler must not convert to the above format, it
c += *b; // must access a then b


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