Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:10:58 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tools/memory-model: Add extra ordering for locks and remove it for ordinary release/acquire |
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:05 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > The locking pattern is fairly simple and shows where RCpc comes apart > from expectation real nice.
So who does RCpc right now for the unlock-lock sequence? Somebody mentioned powerpc. Anybody else?
How nasty would be be to make powerpc conform? I will always advocate tighter locking and ordering rules over looser ones..
Linus
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