Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:05:38PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>>> I don't know if this here is affected:
[...something like]
b = atomic_read(a);
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
msleep_interruptible(63);
c = atomic_read(a);
if (c != b) {
b = c;
i = 0;
}
}
> Nope, we're calling schedule which is a rather heavy-weight
> barrier.
How does the compiler know that msleep() has got barrier()s?
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