Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb: Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger 2.6.27-rc4 released

[Stefan Richter]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:50 -0600, jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>>  volatiles left in the code due to the previously stated
>>  (and still present) severe breakage of the GNU compiler with SMP 
>>  shared data.  most of the barrier() functions are just plain broken
>>  and do not result in proper compiler behavior in this tree. 
> 
> Can you provide explicit detail?
> 
> By using barrier() the compiler should clobber all its memory and
> registers therefore forcing a write/reload of the variable.

I hope Jeff didn't try mere barrier()s only.  smp_wmb() and smp_rmb()
are the more relevant barrier variants for mdb, from what I remember
when I last looked at it.
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Stefan Richter
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