[PATCH] io: prevent compiler reordering on the default writeX() implementation

Sinan Kaya okaya at codeaurora.org
Fri Mar 30 07:46:05 PDT 2018


On 3/30/2018 10:29 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> In the abscence of a write barrier or when using a strongly ordered
> architecture, writeX() should at least have a compiler barrier in
> it to prevent commpiler from clobbering the execution order.

Same is true for readX(). I'll wait for review feedback on this before
posting another change for readX().

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Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
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