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From: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bobby.prani@gmail.com,
	pmladek@suse.cz, jack@suse.cz, mcgrof@suse.com, joe@perches.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: drop logbuf_cpu volatile qualifier
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:46:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54665C24.9060605@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141114144515.5b3e7d32@gandalf.local.home>

On 11/14/2014 01:45 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:19:31 -0600
> Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
>> Pranith Kumar posted a patch in which removed the "volatile"
>> qualifier for the "logbuf_cpu" variable in vprintk_emit().
>>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/13/894
>> In his patch, he used ACCESS_ONCE() for all references to
>> that symbol to provide whatever protection was intended.
>>
>> There was some discussion that followed, and in the end
>> Stephen Rostedt concluded that not only was "volatile" not
> 
> I don't know of a Stephen Rostedt. J

Sorry.  I'm sure that's a source of annoyance.  -Alex

>> needed, neither was it required to use ACCESS_ONCE().  I
>> offered an elaborate description that concluded Stephen
> 
> Who is this Stephen you talk about?

. . .


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14 19:19 [PATCH] printk: drop logbuf_cpu volatile qualifier Alex Elder
2014-11-14 19:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-11-14 19:46   ` Alex Elder [this message]
2014-11-14 19:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-11-14 20:01       ` Alex Elder
2014-11-18  9:10 ` Jan Kara

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