Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Tue May 27 2008 - 00:08:22 EST


> either via sparse or some fancy lockdep like "device store" thing?
> If we can't test for it and it doesn't show up on x86 ... it'll just be
> an eterrnal chase.

Ben's point is that it will start showing up on x86 because newer
compilers are reordering things...

- R.
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