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Re: [Xen-devel] regression from c/s 22071:c5aed2e049bc (ept:	Put locks a
 
>>> On 16.12.10 at 17:42, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The issue is not one of serialisation or code ordering. It is one of
> memory-access atomicity. Thus it seems to me that volatile is the correct
Indeed, I agree.
> approach therefore. Perhaps *(volatile type *)px = x or, really, even better
> I should define some {read,write}_atomic{8,16,32,64} accessor functions
> which use inline asm to absolutely definitely emit a single atomic 'mov'
> instruction.
> 
> Make sense?
Yes.
Jan
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