Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] qrwlock, x86 - Treat all data type not biggerthan long as atomic in x86

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:09:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > > And if somebody tries to do a "smp_store_release()" on a random
> > > > > structure or union, do we care? We're not some nanny state that wants
> > > > > to give nice warnings for insane code.
> > > > 
> > > > Hurm, and here I thought warning on insane code was a good idea :/
> > > 
> > > There's a level of insanity that is best cured through Darwin Awards?
> > 
> > Yeah, but who will clean up after them? :-)
> 
> Birds, insects, bacteria?

In the Linux kernel, it will probably be us cleaning up after them.  ;-)

								Thanx, Paul

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