Re: [PATCHv4 0/9] ACCESS_ONCE and non-scalar accesses

2014-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > Linus, ok for the next merge window? Yup, sounds like a plan to me. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: [PATCHv4 0/9] ACCESS_ONCE and non-scalar accesses

2014-12-04 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am 03.12.2014 um 23:30 schrieb Christian Borntraeger: > As discussed on LKML http://marc.info/?i=54611D86.4040306%40de.ibm.com > ACCESS_ONCE might fail with specific compiler for non-scalar accesses. > > Here is a set of patches to tackle that problem. > > The first patch introduce READ_ONCE and

[PATCHv4 0/9] ACCESS_ONCE and non-scalar accesses

2014-12-03 Thread Christian Borntraeger
As discussed on LKML http://marc.info/?i=54611D86.4040306%40de.ibm.com ACCESS_ONCE might fail with specific compiler for non-scalar accesses. Here is a set of patches to tackle that problem. The first patch introduce READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE. If the data structure is larger than the machine word