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| author | Paul E. McKenney | 2016-04-12 17:52:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2016-04-13 08:52:21 +0200 |
| commit | a5052657c164107032d521f0d9e92703d78845f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f9ed953ae89b091ddca52a14bb1e4bcc21a6b9b /Documentation/frv/clock.txt | |
| parent | locking/lockdep: Fix print_collision() unused warning (diff) | |
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locking/Documentation: Clarify relationship of barrier() to control dependencies
The current documentation claims that the compiler ignores barrier(),
which is not the case. Instead, the compiler carefully pays attention
to barrier(), but in a creative way that still manages to destroy
the control dependency. This commit sets the story straight.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: dvhart@linux.intel.com
Cc: edumazet@google.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460476375-27803-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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