Re: MIPS: Get rid of branches to .subsections.

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  Are you sure it won't reorder anything there that actually relies on the 
> > atomic access to have succeeded?  I suggest adding barrier() after the 
> > loop.
> 
> None of the things that were touched by the code had any barrier
> functionality  Some of the functions such as atomic_add don't provide
> memory barriers but where needed a barrier was always provided by C code
> near the end of the function, for example in atomic_add_return.

 OK, if you are sure this is safe, then I see no problem here.

  Maciej