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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:34:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/include atomic.h
Message-ID:  <20010622143210.F20923-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622145212.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

>
> On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hmm........ Did you decide this might clean up the foo we've been seeing?
> >
> > I believe I *had* mentioned this to you at some point......
>
> It shouldn't be needed in theory, (theory is great) but it does make the
> weird witness panics go away.

I thought I mentioned that I thought that the issue here is that you're mixing
atomic accesses (ldl_c/stX_c) which do not require MB with plain tests (using
loads) which are not guaranteed to be coherent.

Oh, well... Look- if it makes things better, great! Maybe just put a note to
revisit it again later?

-matt



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