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[PATCH] Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types
authorArt Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:45:53 +0000 (14:45 -0600)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:39:53 +0000 (14:39 -0800)
commit16afea0255cf6963eb924d4334cdb5acb9074581
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[PATCH] Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types

This is a resubmission of patches originally created by Ingo Molnar.
The link below is the initial (?) posting of the patch.

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115217423929806&w=2

Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types as it causes GCC to generate bad
code (see link) and locking should be used on kernel data.

Signed-off-by: Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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