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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove volatile from nmi.c
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:38:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152898699.27135.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607141017520.5623@g5.osdl.org>

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 10:28 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 

> 	endflag = 1;
> 	smp_wmb();
> 

This was what I originally wrote, and then I saw the set_wmb which made
me think that it was the proper way to do things (why else is it
there?). So if it shouldn't be used, then we should get rid of it or at
least mark it deprecated, otherwise you have people like me thinking
that we should use it.

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14 13:04 [PATCH] remove volatile from nmi.c Steven Rostedt
2006-07-14 13:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-14 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 16:32   ` Chase Venters
2006-07-14 16:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 17:00       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-14 17:28   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 17:38     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2006-07-14 17:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-14 17:58         ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-14 20:04           ` [PATCH 00/02] remove set_wmb Steven Rostedt
2006-07-14 20:05           ` [PATCH 01/02] remove set_wmb - doc update Steven Rostedt
2006-07-15  2:22             ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-15  2:35               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-14 20:05           ` [PATCH 02/02] remove set_wmb - arch removal Steven Rostedt

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