Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'

Mark Lord wrote:

Chris Friesen wrote:

The "reordered" thing really only matters on SMP machines, no?

Also (very much!) for device drivers.

Certainly...but I was coming at it from the perspective of userspace code.

As long as you're not talking to external devices, each cpu must be coherent with respect to itself, no? It's allowed to execute out-of-order, but it needs to make sure that by doing so it doesn't cause changes that are visible to software.

Chris
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