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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	sbw@mit.edu
Subject: [PATCH v2 RFC 0/3] Memory-barrier documentation updates
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:30:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131121213055.GA6938@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

Hello!

This series applies some long-needed updates to memory-barriers.txt:

1.	Add ACCESS_ONCE() calls where needed to ensure their inclusion
	in code copy-and-pasted from this file.

2.	Add long atomic examples alongside the existing atomics.

3.	Prohibit architectures supporting the Linux kernel from
	speculating stores.

Changes from v1:

o	Combined with Peter Zijlstra's speculative-store-prohibition patch.

o	Added more pitfalls to avoid when prohibiting speculative
	stores, along with how to avoid them.

o	Applied Josh Triplett's review comments.

							Thanx, Paul

 b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt |  360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 266 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-21 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-21 21:30 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-11-21 21:31 ` [PATCH v2 RFC 1/3] documentation: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 21:31   ` [PATCH v2 RFC 2/3] documentation: Add long atomic examples " Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 21:55   ` [PATCH v2 RFC 1/3] documentation: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls " Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21 22:09     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 22:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21 22:32         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22 11:17           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-22 18:54             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22 15:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-22 18:13     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-23  9:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-23 17:17         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-04  0:47           ` Paul E. McKenney

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