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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	wensong@linux-vs.org, horms@verge.net.au
Subject: Re: [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:28:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808102835.GC14530@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808.032131.35507346.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:21:31AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:33:00 +0200
> 
> > Just saw this while grepping for atomic_reads in a while loops.
> > Maybe we should re-add the volatile to atomic_t. Not sure.
> 
> I think whatever the choice, it should be done consistently
> on every architecture.
> 
> It's just asking for trouble if your arch does it differently from
> every other.

Well..currently it's i386/x86_64 and s390 which have no volatile
in atomic_t. And yes, of course I agree it should be consistent
across all architectures. But it isn't.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-08  9:33 [patch] ipvs: force read of atomic_t in while loop Heiko Carstens
2007-08-08  9:45 ` Horms
2007-08-08 10:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-08 10:28   ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2007-08-08 21:08     ` Chris Snook
2007-08-08 21:31       ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 22:27         ` Heiko Carstens
2007-08-08 22:38           ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09  0:15       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-09 12:35         ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-09 12:40           ` Chris Snook
2007-08-09 12:49             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-08-09 13:36           ` Andi Kleen

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