- 21 3月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Masanari Iida 提交于
Fix double words "the the" in various files within Documentations. Signed-off-by: NMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 25 2月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
This commit fixes a couple of typos and clarifies what happens when the CPU chooses to execute a later lock acquisition before a prior lock release, in particular, why deadlock is avoided. Reported-by: NPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Reported-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Reported-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 18 2月, 2014 3 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Current compilers can "speculate" stores in the case where both legs of the "if" statement start with identical stores. Because the stores are identical, the compiler knows that the store will unconditionally execute regardless of the "if" condition, and so the compiler is within its rights to hoist the store to precede the condition. Such hoisting destroys the control-dependency ordering. This ordering can be restored by placing a barrier() at the beginning of each leg of the "if" statement. This commit adds this requirement to the control-dependencies section. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
A control dependency consists of a load, a conditional that depends on that load, and a store. This commit emphasizes this point in the summary. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
The ACCESS_ONCE() primitive provides cache coherence, but the documentation does not clearly state this. This commit therefore upgrades the documentation. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 12 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
The LOCK and UNLOCK barriers as described in our barrier document are generally known as ACQUIRE and RELEASE barriers in other literature. Since we plan to introduce the acquire and release nomenclature in generic kernel primitives we should amend the document to avoid confusion as to what an acquire/release means. Reviewed-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092435.GC21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 16 12月, 2013 5 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Historically, an UNLOCK+LOCK pair executed by one CPU, by one task, or on a given lock variable has implied a full memory barrier. In a recent LKML thread, the wisdom of this historical approach was called into question: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg65653.html, in part due to the memory-order complexities of low-handoff-overhead queued locks on x86 systems. This patch therefore removes this guarantee from the documentation, and further documents how to restore it via a new smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() primitive. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
The situations in which ACCESS_ONCE() is required are not well documented, so this commit adds some verbiage to memory-barriers.txt. Reported-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
No SMP architecture currently supporting Linux allows speculative writes, so this commit updates Documentation/memory-barriers.txt to prohibit them in Linux core code. It also records restrictions on their use. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Paul modified the original patch from Peter. ] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Although the atomic_long_t functions are quite useful, they are a bit obscure. This commit therefore adds the common ones alongside their atomic_t counterparts in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
The Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file was written before the need for ACCESS_ONCE() was fully appreciated. It therefore contains no ACCESS_ONCE() calls, which can be a problem when people lift examples from it. This commit therefore adds ACCESS_ONCE() calls. Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 22 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This typo has been there forever, it is 7.5 years old, looks like this section of our memory ordering documentation is a place where most eyes are glazed over already ;-) [ Also fix some stray spaces and stray tabs while at it, shrinking the file by 49 bytes. Visual output unchanged. ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gncea9cb8igosblizfqMXrie@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 20 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Each control-dependency example needs its barriers between the "if" condition and the body of the "if" because a control dependency is a dependency induced by a branch. This commit makes the needed adjustment. Reported-by: NYongming Shen <symingz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 09 1月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Richard Braun 提交于
Add atomic_xchg() to documentation for atomic operations and memory barriers. Signed-off-by: NRichard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 24 10月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
This commit fixes a broken example of overlapping stores in the Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file. Reported-by: NNikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 28 9月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Paul Bolle 提交于
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 05 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Paul E. McKenney 提交于
Transitivity is guaranteed only for full memory barriers (smp_mb()). Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 25 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Document the circular buffering capabilities available in Linux. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reviewed-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 29 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Add a section to the memory barriers document to note the implied memory barriers of sleep primitives (set_current_state() and wrappers) and wake-up primitives (wake_up() and co.). Also extend the in-code comments on the wake_up() functions to note these implied barriers. [ Impact: add documentation ] Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20090428140138.1192.94723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Create Documentation/PCI/ and move PCI-related files to it. Fix a few instances of trailing whitespace. Update references to the new file locations. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 24 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Oleg Nesterov 提交于
(sorry for being offtpoic, but while experts are here...) A "typical" implementation of atomic_add_unless() can return 0 immediately after the first atomic_read() (before doing cmpxchg). In that case it doesn't provide any barrier semantics. See include/asm-ia64/atomic.h as an example. We should either change the implementation, or fix the docs. Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics. Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 24 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jarek Poplawski 提交于
Fix various grammatical issues in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt. Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 30 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Matt LaPlante 提交于
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 09 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Oleg Nesterov 提交于
set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches seem to do just this. Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 21 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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Fix cut'n'paste typo - &a and &b are used in other examples, in this one the doc uses &u and &v. Signed-off-by: NPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 04 10月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Paolo Ornati 提交于
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small cleanups. Examples: "and and" --> "and" "in in" --> "in" "the the" --> "the" "the the" --> "to the" ... Signed-off-by: NPaolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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由 Matt LaPlante 提交于
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'. Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 15 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This patch removes the reference to set_wmb from memory-barriers.txt since it shouldn't be used. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 26 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Apply some small corrections to the memory barrier document, as contributed by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Make another couple of alterations to the memory barrier document following suggestions by Alan Stern and in co-operation with Paul McKenney: (*) Rework the point of introduction of memory barriers and the description of what they are to reiterate why they're needed. (*) Modify a statement about the use of data dependency barriers to note that other barriers can be used instead (as they imply DD-barriers). Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-By: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 11 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan Stern. The following changes were made: (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory barriers was wrong. (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier. This isn't entirely true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both. (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the opposite order to the stores around the write barrier. (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to the stores. (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences" section to make them clearer. Added a couple of diagrams to make it more clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier. (*) Added a section on memory speculation. (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory barriers. They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on. This may be worthy of further documentation later. (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 16 5月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Aneesh Kumar 提交于
Fix some typos in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 11 4月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
In the memory barrier document, improve the example of the data dependency barrier situation by: (1) showing the initial values of the variables involved; and (2) repeating the instruction sequence description, this time with the data dependency barrier actually shown to make it clear what the revised sequence actually is. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Fix the memory barrier documentation to attempt to describe atomic ops correctly. atomic_t ops that return a value _do_ imply smp_mb() either side, and so don't actually require smp_mb__*_atomic_*() special barriers. Also explains why special barriers exist in addition to normal barriers. Further fix the memory barrier documents to portray bitwise operation memory barrier effects correctly following Nick Piggin's comments. It makes the point that any atomic op that both modifies some state in memory and returns information on that state implies memory barriers on both sides. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 01 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
The attached patch documents the Linux kernel's memory barriers. I've updated it from the comments I've been given. The per-arch notes sections are gone because it's clear that there are so many exceptions, that it's not worth having them. I've added a list of references to other documents. I've tried to get rid of the concept of memory accesses appearing on the bus; what matters is apparent behaviour with respect to other observers in the system. Interrupts barrier effects are now considered to be non-existent. They may be there, but you may not rely on them. I've added a couple of definition sections at the top of the document: one to specify the minimum execution model that may be assumed, the other to specify what this document refers to by the term "memory". I've made greater mention of the use of mmiowb(). I've adjusted the way in which caches are described, and described the fun that can be had with cache coherence maintenance being unordered and data dependency not being necessarily implicit. I've described (smp_)read_barrier_depends(). I've rearranged the order of the sections, so that memory barriers are discussed in abstract first, and then described the memory barrier facilities available on Linux, before going on to more real-world discussions and examples. I've added information about the lack of memory barriering effects with atomic ops and bitops. I've added information about control dependencies. I've added more diagrams to illustrate caching interactions between CPUs. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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