Re: spin_lock forgets to clobber memory and other smp fixes [was

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 17:34:24 EST


On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:

>No it's not. We know how big the dummy_lock structure is, and
>so might "know" that it doesn't overlap with something else.

I guess Alexey point is that the current compiler doesn't notice that.

Andrea

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