Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:36:21 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile' |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > [...] In fact, your spin-lock code already inserts "rep nops" and I > > never implied that they should be removed. I said only that "volatile" > > still needs to be used, not some macro that tells the compiler that > > everything in memory probably got trashed. [...] > > your position here does seem to make much sense to me, so please help me ^--- not > understand it. You suggest that the assembly code should be left alone. > But then why do you need the volatile keyword to begin with? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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