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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:23:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141759408.2617.9.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7621.1141756240@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:30 +0000, David Howells wrote:

> True, I suppose. I should make it clear that these accessor functions imply
> memory barriers, if indeed they do,

They don't, but according to Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl
they are performed by the compiler in the order specified.

They also convert between PCI byte order and CPU byte order.  If you
want to avoid that, you need the __raw_* versions, which are not
guaranteed to be provided by all arches.

	<b


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07 17:40 [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers David Howells
2006-03-07 10:34 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-07 18:30   ` David Howells
2006-03-07 11:13     ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-07 19:24       ` David Howells
2006-03-07 18:46     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-07 19:23     ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2006-03-07 11:57       ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-07 20:01         ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-07 21:14         ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-07 21:24           ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-08  0:36             ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08  0:35         ` Alan Cox
2006-03-07 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-07 18:54   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-07 19:06     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-07 19:15       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-07 19:33     ` Alan Cox
2006-03-07 20:09   ` David Howells
2006-03-08  0:32     ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08  8:25     ` Duncan Sands
2006-03-08 22:06       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08 22:24         ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08 22:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08 22:42         ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08  2:07 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08  3:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08  3:30   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08 12:34     ` David Howells
2006-03-08 16:40       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-08  7:41   ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08 13:19   ` David Howells
2006-03-08 21:49     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08 22:05       ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2] David Howells
2006-03-08 14:55   ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 15:41     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-08 17:19       ` David Howells
2006-03-08 22:10         ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08 23:08           ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2006-03-09  1:01             ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09 16:02               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2006-03-08 17:04     ` David Howells
2006-03-08 17:36       ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 18:35         ` David Howells
2006-03-08 18:45           ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 18:59             ` David Howells
2006-03-08 11:38               ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-08 19:08             ` David Howells
2006-03-08 19:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-08 19:31                 ` David Howells
2006-03-09  0:35                   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  0:54                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09  1:08                       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  1:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09  2:38                           ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-09  3:45                           ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  4:36                             ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-09  7:41                               ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  5:38                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 12:27                               ` David Howells
2006-03-09 11:44                             ` Michael Buesch
2006-03-09  4:34                           ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-09  4:43                             ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09 10:05                               ` Jes Sorensen
2006-03-09  0:55                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-09  1:57                       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  4:26                         ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-08 19:40                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-09  0:37                   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  0:59                     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-09  1:36                       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09  4:18                         ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-08 19:54                 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-08 20:02                 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 22:01     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-08 22:23       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08 19:37   ` [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #3] David Howells
2006-03-09 14:01     ` David Howells
2006-03-08 16:18 ` [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers Pavel Machek
2006-03-08 20:16   ` David Howells
2006-03-08 22:01     ` Alan Cox
2006-03-09 11:41       ` David Howells
2006-03-09 12:28         ` Alan Cox
2006-03-09 13:02           ` David Howells
2006-03-09 16:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 17:39           ` David Howells
2006-03-09 17:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 17:56               ` Linus Torvalds

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