Re: perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 30 2013 - 11:51:37 EST
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:28:54PM +0200, Victor Kaplansky wrote:
> one of the authors of Documentation/memory-barriers.txt is on cc: list ;-)
>
> Disclaimer: it is anyway impossible to prove lack of *any* problem.
>
> Having said that, lets look into an example in
> Documentation/circular-buffers.txt:
>
> We can see that authors of the document didn't put any memory barrier
Note that both documents have the same author list ;-)
Anyway, I didn't know about the circular thing, I suppose I should use
CIRC_SPACE() thing :-)
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