From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
horms@verge.net.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
csnook@redhat.com, rpjday@mindspring.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
ak@suse.de, cfriesen@nortel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jesper.juhl@gmail.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, zlynx@acm.org,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net,
wensong@linux-vs.org, wjiang@resilience.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on alpha
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:07:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442f95ba19f8622ce04cf0334f34be11@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IJPkg-0000x0-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
>> The compiler is within its rights to read a 32-bit quantity 16 bits at
>> at time, even on a 32-bit machine. I would be glad to help pummel any
>> compiler writer that pulls such a dirty trick, but the C standard
>> really
>> does permit this.
>
> Code all over the kernel assumes that 32-bit reads/writes
> are atomic so while such a compiler might be legal it certainly
> can't compile Linux.
That means GCC cannot compile Linux; it already optimises
some accesses to scalars to smaller accesses when it knows
it is allowed to. Not often though, since it hardly ever
helps in the cost model it employs.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 13:24 [PATCH 1/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on alpha Chris Snook
2007-08-09 14:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 14:53 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 15:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 15:24 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 15:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 16:20 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 18:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 19:05 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 19:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 19:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-09 19:47 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 23:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 16:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 16:36 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 16:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 17:14 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 17:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 18:13 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 18:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 19:24 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-10 1:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-10 19:49 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-10 20:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-09 19:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 18:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-09 19:30 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-10 8:21 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-10 9:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-10 15:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-10 20:07 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-08-11 0:00 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-11 0:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-11 0:43 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-11 0:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-11 4:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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