Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:09:31 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | 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 02:09:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > 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? :-) > > Birds, insects, bacteria?
In the Linux kernel, it will probably be us cleaning up after them. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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