From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:36:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1141778218.2455.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603072224.09976.ak@suse.de>
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 22:24 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > But on most arches those accesses do indeed seem to happen in-order. On
> > i386 and x86_64, it's a natural consequence of program store ordering.
>
> Not true for reads on x86.
You must have a strange kernel Andi. Mine marks them as volatile
unsigned char * references.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 0:34 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
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 [this message]
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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