From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
boqun.feng@gmail.com, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire()
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:36:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8722.1446496609@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwMREaiVSZhTt3HB+Qrgj1pA5p9P6q8WD-dSa7=rHYPmQ@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > + smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* ctrl */ \
> > + smp_rmb(); /* ctrl + rmb := acquire */ \
Doesn't smp_rmb() imply an smp_read_barrier_depends() anyway? In
memory-barriers.txt, it says:
Read memory barriers imply data dependency barriers, and so can
substitute for them.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-02 13:29 [PATCH 0/4] scheduler ordering bits Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched: Better document the try_to_wake_up() barriers Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-04 0:09 ` Byungchul Park
2015-12-04 0:58 ` Byungchul Park
2015-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched: Document Program-Order guarantees Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 20:27 ` Paul Turner
2015-11-02 20:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 22:09 ` Paul Turner
2015-11-02 22:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-20 10:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-20 14:08 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-20 14:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-20 14:21 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-20 19:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched: Fix a race in try_to_wake_up() vs schedule() Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 17:43 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-03 1:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-03 1:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-02 17:42 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-02 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-02 18:37 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-02 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-02 19:57 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-02 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 21:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-03 1:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-03 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-04 3:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-04 4:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-04 12:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-02 20:36 ` David Howells [this message]
2015-11-02 20:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-02 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-03 17:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-03 18:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 9:39 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-11 10:34 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-11 19:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-12 13:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-11 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-11 19:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-11 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-12 7:14 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-12 10:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-12 15:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-12 14:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-12 14:49 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-12 15:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-12 21:53 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-12 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-12 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-12 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-12 15:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-12 21:25 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-12 15:18 ` Boqun Feng
2015-11-12 18:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-12 18:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-12 19:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-11-12 18:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-12 21:33 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-12 23:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-16 13:58 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-12 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-12 22:09 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-16 15:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 16:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-16 16:24 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-16 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-16 16:46 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-16 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-16 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-11-17 11:51 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-17 21:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-18 11:25 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-19 18:01 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-20 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
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