Re: [RFC] LKMM: Add volatile_if()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 11:59 AM Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think just
> #define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("" : : "i" (__COUNTER__) : "memory")
> should be enough

Oh, I like that. Much better.

It avoids all the issues with comments etc, and because it's not using
__COUNTER__ as a string, it doesn't need the preprocessor games with
double expansion either.

So yeah, that seems like a nice solution to the issue, and should make
the barriers all unique to the compiler.

             Linus