Re: [PATCH RFC] locking: Add volatile to arch_spinlock_t structures

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> anywhere in that translation unit.  After all, any non-static function
> in that translation unit might be called from some other translation
> unit that -did- use locking or whatever.
> 
> I will let you know how it goes.  ;-)

It breaks DEC10 ;-)

If there is kickback over things like optimisation perhaps the gcc
maintainers could at least consider something like

	int __attribute((threadsafe)) fred;

??

Alan
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