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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
	Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unlock-lock questions and the Linux Kernel Memory Model
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:39:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171130163909.GQ3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171130162501.cx5ha7nispozlf34@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 05:25:01PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:14:01AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > (Also, technically speaking, the litmus test doesn't have any release 
> > > operations, so no release sequence...)
> > 
> > True!  But if you translated it into C11, you would probably turn the
> > smp_wmb() followed by write into a store release, which would get you
> > a release sequence.
> 
> 	smp_wmb()
> 	WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
> 
> does not a RELEASE make.

Agreed, but it also does not C11 make.  There is no pure write barrier
in C11.

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4118cdbe-c396-08b9-a3e3-a0a6491b82fa@nvidia.com>
2017-11-27 21:16 ` Unlock-lock questions and the Linux Kernel Memory Model Alan Stern
2017-11-27 23:28   ` Daniel Lustig
2017-11-28  9:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-28  9:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-29 19:04   ` Daniel Lustig
2017-11-29 19:33     ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-29 19:44     ` Alan Stern
2017-11-30  8:55       ` Boqun Feng
2017-11-30  9:15         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-30 15:46         ` Alan Stern
2017-12-01  2:46           ` Boqun Feng
2017-12-01 15:32             ` Alan Stern
2017-12-01 16:17               ` Daniel Lustig
2017-12-01 16:24                 ` Will Deacon
2017-12-01 17:18                 ` Alan Stern
2017-11-29 19:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-29 19:53       ` Alan Stern
2017-11-29 20:42         ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-29 22:18           ` Daniel Lustig
2017-11-29 22:59             ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-30 15:20             ` Alan Stern
2017-11-30 16:14               ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-30 16:25                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-30 16:39                   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-11-30 16:41                 ` Will Deacon
2017-11-30 16:54                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-11-30 17:04                     ` Will Deacon
2017-11-30 17:56                     ` Alan Stern
2017-11-30 10:02       ` Will Deacon
2017-11-29 19:58     ` Peter Zijlstra

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