On Thursday 16 August 2007 00:22, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Satyam Sharma writes: > In the kernel we use atomic variables in precisely those situations > where a variable is potentially accessed concurrently by multiple > CPUs, and where each CPU needs to see updates done by other CPUs in a > timely fashion. That is what they are for. Therefore the compiler > must not cache values of atomic variables in registers; each > atomic_read must result in a load and each atomic_set must result in a > store. Anything else will just lead to subtle bugs.
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