Re: [PATCH] x86: SGU UV Add volatile to macros that access chipsetregisters

[Daniel Walker]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:42 -0500, Jack Steiner wrote:
> Add "volatile" to the SGI UV read/write macros that are used to access chipset
> memory mapped registers.

There is a considerable document regarding the usage of volatile in the
kernel (Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt). Considering that
document, can you give a more descriptive reason why your using
"volatile" here ?

Daniel


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/