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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Does Itanium permit speculative stores?
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:13:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111171307.GA27002@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

Hello, Tony,

Does Itanium permit speculative stores?  For example, on Itanium what are
the permitted outcomes of the following litmus test, where both x and y
are initially zero?

	CPU 0				CPU 1

	r1 = ACCESS_ONCE(x);		r2 = ACCESS_ONCE(y);
	if (r1)				if (r2)
		ACCESS_ONCE(y) = 1;		ACCESS_ONCE(x) = 1;

In particular, is the outcome (r1 == 1 && r2 == 1) possible on Itanium
given this litmus test?

							Thanx, Paul


             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11 17:13 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-11-12 18:00 ` Does Itanium permit speculative stores? Luck, Tony
2013-11-12 18:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 18:46     ` Luck, Tony
2013-11-12 18:49       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-12 21:29       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-12 21:30     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-12 18:31   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-12 18:34   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-27  4:55 ` Jon Masters
2013-11-27 17:19   ` Paul E. McKenney

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