On 08/11, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 08:45:16AM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
->jobctl is always modified with ->siglock held, do we really need WRITE_ONCE() ?
In theory, yes. The compiler doesn't know about locks, it can tear writes whenever it feels like it.
Yes, but why does this matter? Could you spell please?
Oleg.