[PATCH -V10 10/15] powerpc: Prevent gcc to re-read the pagetables

David Laight David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Thu Jun 6 01:41:45 EST 2013


>  	ptep = pte_offset_kernel(&pmd, addr);
>  	do {
> -		pte_t pte = *ptep;
> +		pte_t pte = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptep);

Why not just define ptep as a 'pointer to volatile'?

	David





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