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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: smp_rmb in mm/memory.c in 2.6.10
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:59:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050113215955.GB6309@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050113212912.93033.qmail@web14308.mail.yahoo.com>

 
Hi Kanoj,

> Okay, I think I see what you and wli meant. But the assumption that
> spin_lock will order memory operations is still correct, right?

A spin_lock will only guarantee loads and stores inside the locked
region dont leak outside. Loads and stores before the spin_lock may leak
into the critical region. Likewise loads and stores after the
spin_unlock may leak into the critical region.

Also they dont guarantee ordering for cache inhibited loads and stores.

Anton
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-13 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13 20:26 Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-13 20:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-13 21:02   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-13 21:06     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-13 21:29       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-13 21:59         ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2005-01-13 23:22           ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-14 20:37             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-14 21:14               ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-14 21:38                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 22:09                 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-14 22:34                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 21:25               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 21:32                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 22:22                   ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-14 22:47                     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-14 22:51                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 23:14                       ` Kanoj Sarcar
2005-01-14 23:26                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14 22:36                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-14 23:01                     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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