linux-kernel - Re: [patch] cpufreq: mark cpufreq_tsc() as core_initcall

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0611212116560.11777-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:17:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] cpufreq: mark cpufreq_tsc() as core_initcall_sync

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> > Things may not be quite as bad as they appear.  On many architectures the
> > store-mb-load pattern will work as expected.  (In fact, I don't know which
> > architectures it might fail on.)
> 
> Several weak-memory-ordering CPUs.  :-/

Of the CPUs supported by Linux, do you know which ones will work with
store-mb-load and which ones won't?

Alan

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