linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation: ACQUIRE applies to loads, RELEASE applies to stores

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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:14:22 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: ACQUIRE applies to loads, RELEASE applies
 to stores

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:32:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:41:49AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > For compound atomics performing both a load and a store operation, make
> > it clear that _acquire and _release variants refer only to the load and
> > store portions of compound atomic. For example, xchg_acquire is an xchg
> > operation where the load takes on ACQUIRE semantics.
> > 
> > Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Queued, thank you both!

							Thanx, Paul

> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> > index 3729cbe60e41..05f8011011be 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> > @@ -464,6 +464,11 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
> >       This means that ACQUIRE acts as a minimal "acquire" operation and
> >       RELEASE acts as a minimal "release" operation.
> >  
> > +A subset of the atomic operations described in atomic_ops.txt have ACQUIRE
> > +and RELEASE variants in addition to fully-ordered and relaxed (no barrier
> > +semantics) definitions.  For compound atomics performing both a load and a
> > +store, ACQUIRE semantics apply only to the load and RELEASE semantics apply
> > +only to the store portion of the operation.
> >  
> >  Memory barriers are only required where there's a possibility of interaction
> >  between two CPUs or between a CPU and a device.  If it can be guaranteed that
> > -- 
> > 2.1.4
> > 
>