On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> wrote:
> We have been chasing a memory corruption bug, which turned out to be
> caused by very old gcc (4.3.4), which happily turned conditional load into
> a non-conditional one, and that broke correctness (the condition was met
> only if lock was held) and corrupted memory.

Just out of interest, can you point to the particular kernel code that
caused this? I think that's more interesting than the example program
you show - which I'm sure is really nice for gcc developers as an
example, but from a kernel standpoint I think it's more important to
show the particular problems this caused for the kernel?

            Linus

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