Re: can somebody explain barrier() macro ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 16:02:09 EST


> barrier() is defined in kernel.h as follows :
>
> #define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")
>
> what does this mean ? is this like "nop" ?

Its adds an empty piece of assembler (ie no code) and declares that this
non code causes effects on memory. That forces gcc to writeback before the
barrier and reload cached values afterwards
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