On 3/22/2018 8:52 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>> No, it's not sufficient. > Just to clarify ... barrier() is just a compiler barrier, it means the > compiler will generate things in the order they are written. This isn't > sufficient on archs with an OO memory model, where an actual memory > barrier instruction needs to be emited. Surprisingly, ARM64 GCC compiler generates a write barrier as opposed to preventing code reordering. I was curious if this is an ARM only thing or not. -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
