Re: [PATCH] Fix the cpumask rewrite

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:01:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Final note: I might be willing to just change the rules, if people can 
> show that no paths that might need the volatile behaviour exist any more. 
> They definitely used to exist, though, and that's a BIG decision to make.

At least input pretty much relies on the fact that bitops don't need
locking and act as memory barriers.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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