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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] Documentation: rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:29:01PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> In this specific portion of the write memory barriers description,
> the documentation mentions sequential order of stores, which is
> confusing since sequential ordering is not guaranteed.
>
> This patch tries to improve the doc in order to avoid any
> mis-understanding.
>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Good catch, and you are quite correct, a write barrier orders only
before and after itself, doing nothing to impose order on preceding
writes among themselves.

Applied, thank you!

Thanx, Paul

> ---
>
> v2: added Paul in CC.
>
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> index b759a60624fd..a4bbbd1b63a0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ Memory barriers come in four basic varieties:
> to have any effect on loads.
>
> A CPU can be viewed as committing a sequence of store operations to the
> - memory system as time progresses. All stores before a write barrier will
> - occur in the sequence _before_ all the stores after the write barrier.
> + memory system as time progresses. All stores _before_ a write barrier
> + will occur _before_ all the stores after the write barrier.
>
> [!] Note that write barriers should normally be paired with read or data
> dependency barriers; see the "SMP barrier pairing" subsection.
> --
> 2.14.1
>

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