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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory barrier question
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:40:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920204055.GJ2408@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C97C366.80206@orcon.net.nz>

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:26:14AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> On 21/09/10 06:25, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >But do we really care about Alpha anymore?  (I can see it now... The
> >Alpha portion of the kernel tree moves to staging...)
> 
> I do.
> 
> Sent from my Compaq Alpha XP1000 :-)

In that case, an smp_read_barrier_depends() or rcu_dereference() is
also required...

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 20:40 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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-20 10:34 George Spelvin
2010-09-20 10:34 ` George Spelvin

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