On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 10:56 PM Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > > You can't then go and decide to remove the compiler barrier! To do > that you'd need to audit every single use of rcu_read_lock in the > kernel to ensure that they're not depending on the compiler barrier.
What's the possible case where it would matter when there is no preemption?
Linus
