From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #4]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:11:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877j6wax7m.fsf@javad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31079.1142368507@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (David Howells's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:35:07 +0000")
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:
> Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
>
>> > +In addition, accesses to "volatile" memory locations and volatile asm
>> > +statements act as implicit compiler barriers.
>>
>> This last statement seems to contradict with what GCC manual says about
>> volatile asm statements:
>
> Perhaps I should say "compiler memory barrier", since it doesn't prevent
> instructions from being moved, but rather merely affects the ordering of
> memory accesses and volatile instructions.
Well, I'd just remove the two lines in question as neither volatile
access nor volatile asm are barriers, -- that's why the barrier() is
needed in the first place.
-- Sergei.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 20:29 [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #4] David Howells
2006-03-09 23:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-09 23:45 ` Michael Buesch
2006-03-09 23:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-10 0:07 ` Michael Buesch
2006-03-10 0:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-10 0:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-10 15:19 ` David Howells
2006-03-11 0:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-10 5:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-15 11:10 ` David Howells
2006-03-15 11:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-15 13:47 ` David Howells
2006-03-15 23:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-12 17:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-14 21:26 ` David Howells
2006-03-14 21:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-14 23:59 ` David Howells
2006-03-15 0:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-15 1:19 ` David Howells
2006-03-15 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-15 1:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-15 0:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-13 12:32 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-14 20:31 ` David Howells
2006-03-14 21:11 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-15 9:09 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-15 9:04 ` Sergei Organov
2006-03-14 20:35 ` David Howells
2006-03-15 9:11 ` Sergei Organov [this message]
2006-03-15 14:23 ` [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #5] David Howells
[not found] ` <20060315200956.4a9e2cb3.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-03-16 11:50 ` David Howells
2006-03-16 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 1:20 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-16 23:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-03-16 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 1:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-03-17 5:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 6:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-03-23 18:34 ` David Howells
2006-03-23 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-23 22:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
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