Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:07:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile' |
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > You need to exclude "asm volatile", which is a completely different thing. > > 10077.
Yeah, way too many.
That said, at least _some_ of them are:
- casts to volatile inside arch-specific code serquences (ie the _good_ kind of volatile - associated with _code_ rather than data).
See for example include/asm-i386/io.h for 100% valid examples of this kind of usage.
- function argument values for functions that need to be able to take an arbitrary pointer ("const volatile void *" is the most permissive argument type - anything else the compiler can complain about you dropping qualifiers)
See include/asm-i386/bitops.h for examples of this kind of volatile.
So I'd expect that maybe one percent of them are actually valid ;)
And I suspect that a huge majority of the truly crapola ones are in drivers. Oh, well..
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