Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:36:58 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 22:24 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But on most arches those accesses do indeed seem to happen in-order. On > > i386 and x86_64, it's a natural consequence of program store ordering. > > Not true for reads on x86.
You must have a strange kernel Andi. Mine marks them as volatile unsigned char * references.
Alan
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