On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:35:22AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > In this example, READ_ONCE() is in fact a volatile access, so we're > > okay. > > But our documentation clearly states a control-dep can only be from a > READ_ONCE() (or something stronger), right? So we should be good > irrespectively.
Agreed. My point was that these are delicate issues. (And they will become more relevant when we want to expand the Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model to cover ordinary accesses and data races.) Alan
