Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers

Alan Cox
2006-03-08T00:34:03Z

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