Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> [ BTW, why do we want the compiler to not optimize atomic_read()'s in
>   the first place? Atomic ops guarantee atomicity, which has nothing
>   to do with "volatility" -- users that expect "volatility" from
>   atomic ops are the ones who must be fixed instead, IMHO. ]

LDD3 says on page 125:  "The following operations are defined for the
type [atomic_t] and are guaranteed to be atomic with respect to all
processors of an SMP computer."

Doesn't "atomic WRT all processors" require volatility?
-- 
Stefan Richter
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