From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] barriers: introduce smp_mb__release_acquire and update documentation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:41:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151009124127.GO26278@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151009110246.GY3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 01:02:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:40:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Stepping back a second, I believe that there are three cases:
> >
> >
> > RELEASE X -> ACQUIRE Y (same CPU)
> > * Needs a barrier on TSO architectures for full ordering
> +PPC
>
> > UNLOCK X -> LOCK Y (same CPU)
> > * Needs a barrier on PPC for full ordering
>
>
> > RELEASE X -> ACQUIRE X (different CPUs)
> * Fully ordered everywhere...
> * ... but needs a barrier on TSO + PPC to become a full barrier
>
> > UNLOCK X -> ACQUIRE X (different CPUs)
>
> s/ACQUIRE/LOCK/ ?
Yes, sorry.
Will
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2015-10-08 3:50 ` [PATCH v2] barriers: introduce smp_mb__release_acquire and update documentation Michael Ellerman
2015-10-08 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-08 12:59 ` Will Deacon
2015-10-08 22:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-09 9:51 ` Will Deacon
2015-10-09 11:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-09 17:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-09 18:33 ` Will Deacon
2015-10-12 23:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-20 14:20 ` Boqun Feng
2015-10-08 21:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-09 7:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 8:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 9:40 ` Will Deacon
2015-10-09 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 12:41 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2015-10-09 11:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 12:51 ` Will Deacon
2015-10-09 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 11:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-09 17:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-19 1:17 ` Boqun Feng
2015-10-19 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-20 7:35 ` Boqun Feng
2015-10-20 23:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-21 8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-21 19:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-21 19:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-21 19:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-10-21 16:04 ` David Laight
2015-10-21 19:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
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