Aliasing issue with TAILQ on ppc64 ?

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:12:56PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <CAJ-FndDP3RSjgL_fXap2DyDZdXW3iQ_=jnAx_cCx5uFhFeaq5w at mail.gmail.com>
> , Attilio Rao writes:
> 
> >Stop acting like the old teacher speaking to stupid students.
> 
> A very apt metaphor in this case.
> 
> Adding memory barriers to the TAILQ macros is not something I would
> do lightly, but it is, obviously, one of the possibilties.
> 
> I'd far prefer if we could get away with sticking a couple of
> volatile's in there.

Note that if the issue is with aliasing then barriers has nothing to do
with the fix. In your case it is supposedly cached access from the other
pointer which causes the problem, compiler must not reorder accesses which
provably causes change in the behaviour.
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