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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, mingo@redhat.com, jblunck@suse.de,
	bcrl@linux.intel.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory barriers and spin_unlock safety
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:40:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307174057.GD7301@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31420.1141753019@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:36:59PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect, then, that x86_64 should not have an SFENCE for smp_wmb(), and
> > that only io_wmb() should have that.
> 
> Hmmm... We don't actually have io_wmb()... Should the following be added to
> all archs?
> 
> 	io_mb()
> 	io_rmb()
> 	io_wmb()

it's spelled mmiowb(), and reads from IO space are synchronous, so don't
need barriers.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-03 16:03 Memory barriers and spin_unlock safety David Howells
2006-03-03 16:45 ` David Howells
2006-03-03 17:03   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 20:17     ` David Howells
2006-03-03 21:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 21:51         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-03 22:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 22:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 17:36       ` David Howells
2006-03-07 17:40         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-03-07 17:56           ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-07 18:18         ` Alan Cox
2006-03-07 18:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 18:55             ` Alan Cox
2006-03-07 20:21               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06  9:06     ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-03 20:02   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-03 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 20:15   ` David Howells
2006-03-03 21:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03 21:06   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-03 21:18     ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-03-03 21:52       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-03 22:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-04 10:58     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-04 22:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-04 10:58   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-04 17:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08  3:20       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08  3:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08 13:12           ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 15:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-05  2:04     ` Michael Buesch
     [not found] <5Ml19-2Ki-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5MlO0-3JU-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5MCF0-2TS-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5MITJ-2l4-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <5NXxl-6WZ-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <5NY0h-7wa-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-11  1:19           ` Robert Hancock
2006-03-12 18:09             ` Alan Cox

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