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

[Satyam Sharma]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:33:36PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:25:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > 
> > > Do we really need another set of APIs?  Can you give even one example
> > > where the pre-existing volatile semantics are causing enough of a problem
> > > to justify adding yet more atomic_*() APIs?
> > 
> > Let's turn this around.  Can you give a single example where
> > the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?
> 
> Sorry, but you are the one advocating for the change.

Not for i386 and x86_64 -- those have atomic ops without any "volatile"
semantics (currently as per existing definitions).
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