Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 13:18 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> I didn't suggest the compiler could or should do it, just that it would 
> be possible (for the _user_) to write portable ISO C code to access PCI 
> mmio registers, if volatile's implementation serialized access.

And how is this portable on complex multibus architectures, where the
PCI access goes through a couple of transports before hitting the PCI
hardware ?

volatile has no notion of serialization. volatile guarantees that the
compiler does not optimize and cache seemingly static values, i.e. it
disables compiler optimizations.

	tglx


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