On Wednesday 27 July 2011, Will Newton wrote:
> The generic atomic bitops currently explicitly cast away the
> volatile from the pointer passed to them. This will allow the
> access to the bitfield to happen outside of the critical section
> thus making the bitops no longer interrupt-safe. Remove this cast
> and add a volatile keyword to make sure all accesses to the
> bitfield happen inside the critical section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.new...@imgtec.com>
Have you observed this behavior? The interrupt disable/enable should
always come with a barrier that should prevent the bitops from
leaking out, so I don't see how this causes problems in practice.
Arnd
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