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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory barrier question
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:59:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18367.1284659954@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284653939.2275.578.camel@laptop>

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Therefore:
> 
>   A = 5
>   LOCK
> 
>   UNLOCK
>   B = 6
> 
> May be observed as:
> 
>    LOCK
>    B = 6
>    A = 5
>    UNLOCK

Yeah, you're right.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-15 14:36 memory barrier question Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-15 14:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-15 19:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-09-16 11:55 ` David Howells
2010-09-16 13:42   ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 13:42     ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 14:30     ` David Howells
2010-09-16 15:03       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-16 15:03         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-16 16:06         ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 16:06           ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 16:37           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-16 16:56             ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 17:09               ` James Bottomley
2010-09-16 17:17                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-16 17:40                   ` James Bottomley
2010-09-17 21:49                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-17 23:12                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-19  2:47                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-19 15:26                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-19 20:15                           ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-19 21:59                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-20  0:58                               ` James Bottomley
2010-09-20  1:29                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-20 16:01                                   ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-20 18:25                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-20 18:57                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-20 20:26                                       ` Michael Cree
2010-09-20 20:40                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-21 14:59                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-22 18:41                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-18  1:12                     ` Alan Cox
2010-09-16 16:50           ` Jamie Lokier
2010-09-16 16:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-16 17:59     ` David Howells [this message]
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2010-09-20 10:34 George Spelvin
2010-09-20 10:34 ` George Spelvin

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