Re: [PATCH] signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:37 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> GCC will generate code for this without complaining, but I think it'll
> probably generate a tearing store on 32-bit platforms:

This is very much a "we don't care" case.

It's literally testing a sequence counter for equality. If you get
tearing in the high bits on the write (or the read), you'd still need
to have the low bits turn around 4G times to get a matching value.

So no. We're not doing atomics for the 32-bit case. That's insane.

               Linus