Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:09:31 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
        Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] qrwlock, x86 - Treat all data type not bigger
 than long as atomic in x86
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:09:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:09:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > > And if somebody tries to do a "smp_store_release()" on a random
> > > > > structure or union, do we care? We're not some nanny state that wants
> > > > > to give nice warnings for insane code.
> > > > 
> > > > Hurm, and here I thought warning on insane code was a good idea :/
> > > 
> > > There's a level of insanity that is best cured through Darwin Awards?
> > 
> > Yeah, but who will clean up after them? :-)
> 
> Birds, insects, bacteria?

In the Linux kernel, it will probably be us cleaning up after them.  ;-)

								Thanx, Paul

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