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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: write barriers - Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] problem of	cont_prepare_write()
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:08:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87is61gq2d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E69A28.9080900@nortelnetworks.com> (Chris Friesen's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:56:24 -0600")

* Chris Friesen:

> I believe so.  You may also need to cast them as volatile to prevent the 
> compiler from reordering--can someone with more gcc knowledge than I 
> state definitively whether or not it is smart enough to not reorder 
> barriers?

If you define it properly, GCC won't reorder it (volatile __asm__ with
memory operands should be sufficient).

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-13 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-22 10:30 [RFC][PATCH] problem of cont_prepare_write() OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-22 10:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-22 10:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-22 11:03   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-22 21:53     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-22 23:30       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-22 23:43         ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-13 14:47           ` write barriers - Was: " Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-13 15:56             ` Chris Friesen
2005-01-13 18:08               ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-11-22 11:38   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-22 21:43     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23  2:22       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-11-23  2:30         ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-23  2:55           ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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