Commit a5052657 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 5c8a010c
......@@ -813,9 +813,10 @@ In summary:
the same variable, then those stores must be ordered, either by
preceding both of them with smp_mb() or by using smp_store_release()
to carry out the stores. Please note that it is -not- sufficient
to use barrier() at beginning of each leg of the "if" statement,
as optimizing compilers do not necessarily respect barrier()
in this case.
to use barrier() at beginning of each leg of the "if" statement
because, as shown by the example above, optimizing compilers can
destroy the control dependency while respecting the letter of the
barrier() law.
(*) Control dependencies require at least one run-time conditional
between the prior load and the subsequent store, and this
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