Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:57:23 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 07 March 2006 20:23, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:30 +0000, David Howells wrote: > > > True, I suppose. I should make it clear that these accessor functions imply > > memory barriers, if indeed they do, > > They don't, but according to Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl > they are performed by the compiler in the order specified.
I don't think that's correct. Probably the documentation should be fixed.
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