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Date:   Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:35:18 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] LKMM: Add volatile_if()
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:44:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On naming (sorry Paul for forgetting that in the initial mail); while I
> think using the volatile qualifier for the language feature (can we haz
> plz, kthxbai) makes perfect sense, Paul felt that we might use a
> 'better' name for the kernel use, ctrl_dep_if() was proposed.

In standard C statements do not have qualifiers.  Unless you can
convince the ISO C committee to have them on "if", you will have a very
hard time convincing any serious compiler to do this.


Segher