Re: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers

[Roberto Nibali]

> > The attached patch documents the Linux kernel's memory barriers.
>
> References:
>
> AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
>         Chapter 7.1: Memory-Access Ordering
>         Chapter 7.4: Buffering and Combining Memory Writes
>
> IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3:
> System Programming Guide
>         Chapter 7.1: Locked Atomic Operations
>         Chapter 7.2: Memory Ordering
>         Chapter 7.4: Serializing Instructions

Do you guys reckon it might be worthwhile adding Sparc's sequential 
consistency, TSO, RMO and PSO models, although I think only RMO is used 
in the Linux kernel? References can be found for example in:

  Solaris Internals, Core Kernel Architecture, p63-68:
          Chapter 3.3: Hardware Considerations for Locks and
                       Synchronization

  Unix Systems for Modern Architectures, Symmetric Multiprocessing
  and Caching for Kernel Programmers:
          Chapter 13 : Other Memory Models

Or is DaveM the only one fiddling with Sparc memory barriers implementation?

Regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz
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