(S) RFR: 8157904: Atomic::cmpxchg for jbyte is missing a fence on initial failure

[David Holmes]

On 25/08/2016 8:07 AM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:51 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Volker!
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>> Just waiting for Kim to give the all clear.
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> Sorry, I missed that you’d done an in-place update of the webrev.
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> I would have left align_ptr_down alone and cast away the volatile in cmpxchg,

But that would have restored a cast the Volker and Andrew objected to.

> but have no objection to the approach you’ve taken.

Great! Thanks for the assistance with this.

David

> Looks good.
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