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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
Cc: 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: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:57:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603071257.24234.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141759408.2617.9.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com>

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 20:23, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that's correct. Probably the documentation should
be fixed.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ 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 19:46         ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-03-07 18:46     ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-07 19:23     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-03-07 11:57       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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 17:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
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)
2006-03-09 11:26         ` Sergei Organov
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
2006-03-10  0:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
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
2006-03-09 12:02   ` [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2] Sergei Organov
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
2006-03-08 16:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-08 17:35   ` David Howells
2006-03-08 17:46     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-08 17:59       ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-07 23:17 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-08  0:15 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-08  0:24 ` Roberto Nibali
     [not found] <5NONi-2hp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5NOtZ-1FO-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5NPgs-2Rw-37@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5NPq4-34a-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-08  0:22       ` Robert Hancock
     [not found] ` <5NQ2U-462-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5NRLg-6LJ-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5NRUR-6Yo-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <5NUSF-30Z-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-08  1:10         ` Robert Hancock
2006-03-08 11:35           ` Alan Cox
2006-03-08 14:55           ` Andi Kleen

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