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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86 bitops.h commentary on instruction reordering
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>>Yes correct. *mb() usually imply barrier().
>>>
>>>About the flush, each architecture defines its own instruction for doing
>>>so,
>>>PowerPC has "sync" and "isync" instructions (to flush the whole cache
>>>and instruction cache respectively), MIPS has "sync" and so on..
>>
>>So, there is no platform independent way for doing that in the kernel?
>
>
> Not really. x86 doesnt have such an instruction.

But how then spin_lock() works? It guarantees memory sync between CPUs,
doesn't it? Otherwise how can it prevent possible races with concurrent
data modifications?

Vlad
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