Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:33:49 -0800 | Subject | Re: compiler bug gcc4.6/4.7 with ACCESS_ONCE and workarounds | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > Are you ok with the patch as is in kvm/next for the time being or shall > we revert that and replace it with the .val scheme?
Is that the one that was quoted at the beginning of the thread, that uses barrier()?
I guess as a workaround it is fine, as long as we don't lose sight of trying to eventually do a better job.
Linus
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