From 621df431b0ac931e318679f54047c47eb23cfdd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Parri Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:25:07 -0800 Subject: Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Cross-reference "tools/memory-model/" A memory consistency model is now available for the Linux kernel [1], which "can (roughly speaking) be thought of as an automated version of memory-barriers.txt" and which is (in turn) "accompanied by extensive documentation on its use and its design". Inform the (occasional) reader of memory-barriers.txt of these developments. [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151687290114799&w=2 Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri Co-developed-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: nborisov@suse.com Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/memory-barriers.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index a863009849a3..a37d3aff3e73 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ DISCLAIMER This document is not a specification; it is intentionally (for the sake of brevity) and unintentionally (due to being human) incomplete. This document is meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but -in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. +in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. Some doubts may be +resolved by referring to the formal memory consistency model and related +documentation at tools/memory-model/. Nevertheless, even this memory +model should be viewed as the collective opinion of its maintainers rather +than as an infallible oracle. To repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from hardware. -- cgit v1.2.3