[parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux-2.6 jejb

[Grant Grundler]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:45:31PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > This was rather subtle.  It turns out that gcc was doing a small
> > > amount of reordering around the file_lock because it doesn't see our
> > > spinlock implementation as being a barrier.  To fix this I
> 
> This was in fact reported a number of months ago.

*sigh*. This is still in my inbox to track down.

| From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
| To: parisc-linux at parisc-linux.org
| Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:09:56 +0100
| Subject: [parisc-linux] missing barrier in _raw_spin_lock?

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sorry...another thing that fell off my plate...
grant