On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I guess as a workaround it is fine, as long as we don't lose sight of
> trying to eventually do a better job.

Oh, and when it comes to the actual gcc bug - do you have any reason
to believe that it's somehow triggered more easily by something
particular in the arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c code?

IOW, why does this problem not hit the x86 spinlocks that also use
volatile pointers to aggregate types? Or does it?

                       Linus
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