On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:23:34AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:09:31AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 01:53:27PM -0500, bob smith wrote: > > > On 2/13/17 1:39 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > can real DEC Alpha hardware end up with both instances of "r1" > > > > having the value 1? > > > > > > I thought this question reminded me of something, so I found this: > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt > > > > > > and I pasted in the content - David Howells is one of the authors and > > > maybe that is why the question sort of reminded me. > > > > > > Maybe someone has an update but this is what was said then. > > > > Well, thank you for pointing me to this, but my question was intended to > > check whether or not the words I helped to write in memory-barriers.txt > > are in fact accurate. So if you have an SMP DEC Alpha system that you > > could provide remote access to, that would be very helpful! > > I'm that guy with an SMP Alpha system who met you at Linux Conference > Australia after your talk on memory barriers. I meant to get back to > you but tracking down a kernel bug and now a binutils/glibc bug has > got the better of my time. > > Feel free to email me personally to arrange remote access to an SMP > Alpha system, preferrably with a GPG signed message. Would you be willing to extend this offer to Andrea Parri (CCed)? He is the one who has run such tests in the past. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
