On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Christopher Harvey
<chris@basementcode.com> wrote:
On 10.04.2012 19:58, Wink Saville wrote:
> Sounds to me like there needs to be a flush of the processor cache
> by using memory barriers.
I used a wmb(); right after I set the value I wanted.
> I'm guessing that the IRQ is taken on a different thread and possibly
> a different processor and the value needs to be flushed. You might
> try having devid be an atomic_t and then use atomic_set
> and atomic_read so that the "proper" memory barriers are used.
should I use atomic ops instead of a wmb?
The interrupt can't happen until the value is assigned completely in
one thread. I'm sure.