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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	pmladek@suse.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk()
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 08:14:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171004151431.GI3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171004145247.4tp6r6ds6e5pkut5@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 04:52:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:43:54AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > My question is not about ordering, but about coherency. Can you have
> > one CPU read a variable that goes into cache, and keep using the cached
> > variable every time the program asks to read it, instead of going out
> > to memory.
> 
> No, not on a coherent system.

What Peter said.  And if you use READ_ONCE() for the reads, than as
far as I know, all the systems that the Linux kernel supports are
coherent systems.

							Thanx, Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-04 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 12:18 [PATCH 0/3] printk: Add force_early_printk boot param Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-28 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] printk: Fix kdb_trap_printk placement Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-03 22:10   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-05 13:38   ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-05 13:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-09 15:05       ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-12  9:45   ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-12 10:03     ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-12 11:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-12 11:52         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-10-12 12:08           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-10-12 18:11             ` Joe Perches
2017-10-13 14:23               ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-12 11:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-28 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] early_printk: Add force_early_printk kernel parameter Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-28 15:41   ` Randy Dunlap
2017-09-28 16:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-28 17:05       ` Randy Dunlap
2017-10-03 22:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-12 10:24   ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-12 11:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-13 13:06       ` Petr Mladek
2017-10-13 13:20         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-13 13:30         ` Steven Rostedt
2017-09-28 12:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk() Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-03 22:24   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-04  9:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-04 13:04       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-04 13:08         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-04 14:17         ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-04 14:43           ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-04 14:52             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-04 15:02               ` Steven Rostedt
2017-10-04 15:14               ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-10-04 15:24           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-10-04 15:38             ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-09-28 16:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] printk: Add force_early_printk boot param Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-09-28 16:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-18 17:08 [PATCH 0/3] make printk work again Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 17:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] early_printk: Add simple serialization to early_vprintk() Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 17:19   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-10-18 17:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 17:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-11-29 14:10   ` Petr Mladek

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