RE: [BUG] Variable stopmachine_state should be volatile

From: Zhang, Yanmin
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 21:48:31 EST


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@xxxxxx]
>>Sent: 2005年12月1日 18:26
>>To: Zhang, Yanmin
>>Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Shah, Rajesh
>>Subject: Re: [BUG] Variable stopmachine_state should be volatile
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>> >>Those barriers should already prevent compiler optimalization, no? If
>>> >>they do not, just use some barriers that do.
>>>
>>>
>>> I hit the problem when compiling 2.6 kernel by intel compiler.
>>> How about to change the type of stopmachine_state to atomic_t?
>>
>>That is certainly safest / very conservative solution.
>> Pavel
Thanks. The functions are not performance sensitive, so atomic_t is ok. Here is the new patch.

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