On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 15:34 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:13 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Minor nit... I would have said "All readX() and writeX() accesses > > _from > > the same CPU_ to the same peripheral... and then s/the CPU/this > > CPU. > > Maybe talk about "same thread" rather than "same cpu", with the > understanding that scheduling/preemption has to include the > appropriate cross-CPU IO barrier? Works for me, but why not spell all this out in the document ? We know, but others might not. Cheers, Ben.