On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I guess as a workaround it is fine, as long as we don't lose sight of > trying to eventually do a better job. Oh, and when it comes to the actual gcc bug - do you have any reason to believe that it's somehow triggered more easily by something particular in the arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c code? IOW, why does this problem not hit the x86 spinlocks that also use volatile pointers to aggregate types? Or does it? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html