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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-02-11 12:28:06 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-02-17 14:56:07 -0800
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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Conditional must use prior load
A control dependency consists of a load, a conditional that depends on that load, and a store. This commit emphasizes this point in the summary. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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later loads, smp_mb().
(*) Control dependencies require at least one run-time conditional
- between the prior load and the subsequent store. If the compiler
+ between the prior load and the subsequent store, and this
+ conditional must involve the prior load. If the compiler
is able to optimize the conditional away, it will have also
optimized away the ordering. Careful use of ACCESS_ONCE() can
help to preserve the needed conditional.