On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 02:46:51PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> > > b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> >
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hello, Paul,
>
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:07:03PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > Might be worth mentioning that you have to careful with the compiler here,
> > >
Hello, Paul,
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:07:03PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Might be worth mentioning that you have to careful with the compiler here,
> > and pointing to the section on "Control dependencies" so that people don'
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 02:07:03PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:28:10PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The memory-barriers.txt document contains an obsolete passage stating that
> > smp_read_barrier_depends() is required to force ordering for read-to-writ
Hi Paul,
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:28:10PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The memory-barriers.txt document contains an obsolete passage stating that
> smp_read_barrier_depends() is required to force ordering for read-to-write
> dependencies. We now know that this is not required, even for DEC
The memory-barriers.txt document contains an obsolete passage stating that
smp_read_barrier_depends() is required to force ordering for read-to-write
dependencies. We now know that this is not required, even for DEC Alpha.
This commit therefore updates this passage to state that read-to-write
depe
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