On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:44:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On naming (sorry Paul for forgetting that in the initial mail); while I > think using the volatile qualifier for the language feature (can we haz > plz, kthxbai) makes perfect sense, Paul felt that we might use a > 'better' name for the kernel use, ctrl_dep_if() was proposed. In standard C statements do not have qualifiers. Unless you can convince the ISO C committee to have them on "if", you will have a very hard time convincing any serious compiler to do this. Segher