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From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.19-rc3
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 04:45:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150106124528.GE26845@kmo-pixel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150106122006.GW29390@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:20:06PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> We (probably me) should probably audit all the atomic_xchg()
> implementations and documentation and fix that. I was very much under
> the impression it should imply a full barrier (and it certainly does on
> x86), the documentation should state the rule that any atomic_ function
> that returns a result is fully serializing, therefore, because
> atomic_xchg() has a return value, it should too.

I think that the documentation was changed awhile ago - I'd have to check and I
should sleep, though. It was probably 4-5 years ago that I saw that old weird
"atomic_xchg() doesn't imply barriers" thing.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-06  4:49 Linux 3.19-rc3 Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06  9:34 ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06  9:56   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-06 10:06     ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 10:28       ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-06 10:31         ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 10:37           ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-06 10:42             ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06  9:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06  9:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06  9:42   ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06  9:57     ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 10:06       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 10:18         ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 11:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 11:07             ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-06 11:25               ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 11:40                 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-06 12:51                   ` Sedat Dilek
2015-01-06 11:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 11:48                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 12:01                   ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-06 12:20                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 12:45                       ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2015-01-06 12:55                       ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-06 17:38                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-01-06 17:58                           ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-06 19:25                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-01-06 19:57                               ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-06 20:47                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-01-20  0:30                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-01-20 14:03                                     ` Peter Hurley
2015-02-02 16:11                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-02-02 19:03                                         ` Peter Hurley
2015-02-02 19:33                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-01-06 11:56                 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-06 12:16                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 12:43                     ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-06 13:03                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 13:28                         ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-13 15:23                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 11:58               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 12:18                 ` Kent Overstreet
2015-01-16 16:56               ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-16 17:00                 ` Chris Mason
2015-01-16 18:58                   ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-06 10:29   ` Sedat Dilek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-06  1:46 Linus Torvalds
2015-01-06  2:46 ` Dave Jones
2015-01-06  8:18   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-06  9:45   ` Jiri Kosina
2015-01-08 12:51 ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-08 13:45   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-08 17:29     ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-08 17:34       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-08 18:48         ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-08 19:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-09 23:27             ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-10  0:35               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-10  2:27                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-10  2:51                   ` David Lang
2015-01-10  3:06                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-10 10:46                       ` Andreas Mohr
2015-01-10 19:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-13  3:33                     ` Rik van Riel
2015-01-13 10:28                       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-10  3:17                   ` Tony Luck
2015-01-10 20:16                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-10 21:00                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-10 21:36                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-10 21:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-12 11:37                         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-12 12:18                         ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-12 13:57                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-12 14:23                             ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-12 15:42                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-12 11:53                     ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-12 13:15                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-08 15:08   ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-08 16:37     ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-09 15:56       ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-09 12:13   ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-09 14:19     ` Steve Capper
2015-01-09 14:27       ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-09 17:57         ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-09 18:37           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-01-09 19:43             ` Will Deacon
2015-01-10  3:29               ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-01-10  4:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-10 13:37                   ` Will Deacon
2015-01-10 19:47                     ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-01-10 19:56                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-10 20:08                         ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-01-10 19:51                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-12 12:42                       ` Will Deacon
2015-01-12 13:22                         ` Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-12 19:03                         ` Dave Hansen
2015-01-12 19:06                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-12 19:07                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-12 19:24                             ` Will Deacon
2015-01-10 15:22                 ` Kyle McMartin

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