Re: Memory synchronization vs. interrupt handlers

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 08/28/2013 12:16 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> Russell, Peter, and Ingo:
> 
> Can you folks enlighten us regarding this issue for some common 
> architectures?
> 

On x86, IRET is a serializing instruction; it guarantees hard
serialization of absolutely everything.

I would expect architectures that have weak memory ordering to put
appropriate barriers in the IRQ entry/exit code.

	-hpa

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Media]     [Linux Input]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Old Linux USB Devel Archive]

  Powered by Linux