Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: 2.6.38 updates

[Heiko Carstens]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:27:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:18 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > mn10300:
> > #define atomic_read(v)  ((v)->counter)
> 
> > tile:
> > static inline int atomic_read(const atomic_t *v)
> > {
> >        return v->counter;
> > }
> 
> Yeah, I already send email to the respective maintainers telling them
> they might want to fix this ;-)
> 
> 
> > So all but a few have basically (as you said on IRC)
> > #define atomic_read(v) ACCESS_ONCE(v)
> 
> ACCESS_ONCE(v->counter), but yeah :-)
> 
> > Those few are blackfin, s390, powerpc and tile.
> > 
> > s390 probably doesn't need that much of a big hammer with atomic_read()
> > (unless it uses it in its own arch that expects it to be such).
> 
> Right, it could just do the volatile thing..

The reason that the code on s390 looks like it is was that the volatile
cast was known to generate really bad code.
However I just tried a few variants (inline asm / ACCESS_ONCE / leave as is)
with gcc 4.5.2 and the resulting code was always identical.
So I'm going to change it to the ACCESS_ONCE variant so it's the same like
everywhere else.
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