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SubjectRE: perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc
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"David Laight" <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote on 10/31/2013 02:28:56 PM:

> So even though the wmb() in the writer ensures the writes are correctly
> ordered, the reader can read the old value from the second location from
> its local cache.

In case of circular buffer, the only thing that producer reads is @tail,
and nothing wrong will happen if producer reads old value of @tail.
Moreover,
adherents of smp_mb() insert it *after* the read of @tail, so it cannot
prevent reading of old value anyway.
-- Victor



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