Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:13:39 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] qrwlock, x86 - Treat all data type not bigger than long as atomic in x86 |
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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? :-)
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