On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:21:19PM +0100, 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> > --- > include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h | 12 ++++++------ > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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