Re: [PATCH 9/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on ia64

Paul Mackerras wrote:

Chris Snook writes:

I'll do this for the whole patchset.  Stay tuned for the resubmit.

Could you incorporate Segher's patch to turn atomic_{read,set} into
asm on powerpc?  Segher claims that using asm is really the only
reliable way to ensure that gcc does what we want, and he seems to
have a point.

Paul.

I haven't seen a patch yet. I'm going to resubmit with inline volatile-cast atomic[64]_[read|set] on all architectures as a reference point, and if anyone wants to go and implement some of them in assembly, that's between them and the relevant arch maintainers. I have no problem with (someone else) doing it in assembly. I just don't think it's necessary and won't let it hold up the effort to get consistent behavior on all architectures.

	-- Chris
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