Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

Chris Friesen
2007-08-07T15:51:20Z

Chris Snook wrote:

> If your architecture doesn't support SMP, the volatile keyword doesn't
> do anything except add a useless memory fetch.

I was under the impression that there were other cases as well
(interrupt handlers, for instance) where the value could be modified
"behind the back" of the current code.

It seems like this would fall more into the case of the arch providing
guarantees when using locked/atomic access rather than anything
SMP-related, no?.

Chris