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

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:45:20AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:19:57PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Let's turn this around.  Can you give a single example where
> > > the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?
> > 
> > Accessing H/W registers?  But apart from that...
> 
> Communicating between process context and interrupt/NMI handlers using
> per-CPU variables.

Remeber we're talking about atomic_read/atomic_set.  Please
cite the actual file/function name you have in mind.

Thanks,
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