Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb: Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger 2.6.27-rc4 released | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:02:48 +0200 | |
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 12:57 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 20:50 -0600, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
> >
> >> volatiles left in the code due to the previously stated
> >> (and still present) severe breakage of the GNU compiler with SMP
> >> shared data. most of the barrier() functions are just plain broken
> >> and do not result in proper compiler behavior in this tree.
> >
> > Can you provide explicit detail?
> >
> > By using barrier() the compiler should clobber all its memory and
> > registers therefore forcing a write/reload of the variable.
>
> I hope Jeff didn't try mere barrier()s only. smp_wmb() and smp_rmb()
> are the more relevant barrier variants for mdb, from what I remember
> when I last looked at it.
Sure, but volatile isn't a replacement for memory barriers.
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