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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] spin_unlock() problem
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:58:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705431@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705414@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On 07 Apr 2003 18:09:44 -0400, Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> said:

  Jes> Quoting section 4.4.7 "Memory Access Ordering", 2nd paragraph,
  Jes> it says " .... Release data accesses guarantee that all
  Jes> previous data accesses are made visible prior to being made
  Jes> visible themselves."

Oops, sorry, I got it exactly backwards. ;-(
So much for giving a "quick" reply...

  Jes> The way I understand that, it is possible that a store
  Jes> performed after an st.rel may become visible prior to the
  Jes> st.rel, like in this example:

  Jes>   st [r2] = r32		(1)
  Jes>   st.rel [r3] = r33	(2)
  Jes>   st [r4] = r34		(3)

  Jes> In other words we are only guarantied that [r2] is valid when
  Jes> [r3] appears but have no guarantie that [r4] doesn't show up on
  Jes> the bus prior to [r3]?

I wouldn't use the word "valid" here, but yes, (2) and (3) are NOT
ordered.

	--david


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04  4:51 [Linux-ia64] spin_unlock() problem Jes Sorensen
2003-04-04  5:04 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-04-04 14:43 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2003-04-04 14:49 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2003-04-04 15:13 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-04-07 21:09 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-07 21:14 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-07 22:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-04-07 22:18 ` Luck, Tony
2003-04-07 22:58 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-04-07 23:13 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-04-07 23:30 ` Jim Hull
2003-04-07 23:38 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2003-04-08  0:14 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-08  0:15 ` David Mosberger

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