Hi, Maybe I am not familiar with your patch. I don't see where my_wait_event_info is read (there is no getter method in the patch).
In that case, it is fine omitting volatile in the declaration. Cheers On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 1:10 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-04-02 13:06:35 -0700, Zhihong Yu wrote: > > +extern PGDLLIMPORT uint32 *my_wait_event_info; > > > > It seems volatile should be added to the above declaration. Since later: > > > > + *(volatile uint32 *) my_wait_event_info = wait_event_info; > > Why? We really just want to make the store volatile, nothing else. I > think it's much better to annotate that we want individual stores to > happen regardless of compiler optimizations, rather than all > interactions with a variable. > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund >