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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] Fix: trace sched switch start/stop racy updates
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Paulmck actually has an example of that somewhere; ISTR that particular
> case actually got fixed by GCC, but I'd really _love_ for some compiler
> people (both GCC and LLVM) to state that their respective compilers will
> not do load/store tearing for machine word sized load/stores.
>
> Without this written guarantee (which supposedly was in older GCC
> manuals but has since gone missing), I'm loathe to rely on it.

IIRC in that case gcc actually broke atomic writes even with a
volatile keyword. So even WRITE_ONCE wouldn't have saved us.

Cheers,
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