1. 10 Jun, 2006 2 commits
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier document · 670bd95e
      David Howells authored
      From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      
      Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out
      with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan
      Stern.
      
      The following changes were made:
      
       (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory
           barriers was wrong.
      
       (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is
           a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier.  This isn't entirely
           true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both.
      
       (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the
           loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the
           opposite order to the stores around the write barrier.
      
       (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to
           the stores.
      
       (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences"
           section to make them clearer.  Added a couple of diagrams to make it more
           clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier.
      
       (*) Added a section on memory speculation.
      
       (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory
           barriers.  They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on.  This may be
           worthy of further documentation later.
      
       (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a
           full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      670bd95e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc · d90d2c38
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
        [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
        [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support
        powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
      d90d2c38
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