Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/21] doc: READ_ONCE() now implies smp_barrier_depends() | Date | Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:39:05 +0000 |
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Good point! How about as shown in the updated patch below? > > Humm, I thought the idea was to completely remove read_barrier_depends > from the lkmm and memory-barriers.txt, making it an Alpha implementation > detail.
memory-barriers.txt explains how the barriers used by the kernel work, amongst other things.
Don't forget, btw, that Blackfin uses it also.
David
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