Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers [try #2]

Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:

> > That might be worth an example with an if() because PPC will do this and
> > if its a read with a side effect (eg I/O space) you get singed..
> 
> PPC does speculative memory accesses to IO?  Are you *sure*?

Can you do speculative reads from frame buffers?

> # define smp_read_barrier_depends()     do { } while(0)

What's this one meant to do?

> Port space is deprecated though.  PCI 2.3 says:

That's sort of irrelevant for the here. I still need to document the
interaction.

> Since memory write transactions may be posted in bridges anywhere
> in the system, and I/O writes may be posted in the host bus bridge,

I'm not sure whether this is beyond the scope of this document. Maybe the
document's scope needs to be expanded.

David
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