On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 08:50:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Comparing 25+ assembly languages to but two compilers most definitely > motivates looking hard at doing something with the compilers.
+1, especially since the kernel is not special; anyone working with threads faces the same issues in userland, which are often hidden behind the implicit whole-memory clobbers of certain operations or the call to mutex manipulation functions, but which become a reality again as soon as you go slightly away from these and try to use lockless mechanisms. Willy
