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

[David Howells]

Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Let's turn this around.  Can you give a single example where
> the volatile semantics is needed in a legitimate way?

Accessing H/W registers?  But apart from that...

David
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