On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > "volatile" has nothing to do with reordering. atomic_dec() writes > to memory, so it _does_ have "volatile semantics", implicitly, as > long as the compiler cannot optimise the atomic variable away > completely -- any store counts as a side effect.
Stores can be reordered. Only x86 has (mostly) implicit write ordering. So no atomic_dec has no volatile semantics and may be reordered on a variety of processors. Writes to memory may not follow code order on several processors. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
