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

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:19:57PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 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...

Communicating between process context and interrupt/NMI handlers using
per-CPU variables.

							Thanx, Paul
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