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author | pierre Kuo <vichy.kuo@gmail.com> | 2017-04-07 14:37:36 +0800 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-12 08:23:43 -0700 |
commit | b26cfc48e3e03126c183f1f3960e6d69460bb852 (patch) | |
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doc: Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt
In the following example, if MAX is defined to be 1, then the compiler
knows (Q % MAX) is equal to zero. The compiler can therefore throw
away the "then" branch (and the "if"), retaining only the "else" branch.
q = READ_ONCE(a);
if (q % MAX) {
WRITE_ONCE(b, 1);
do_something();
} else {
WRITE_ONCE(b, 2);
do_something_else();
}
It is therefore necessary to modify the example like this:
q = READ_ONCE(a);
- WRITE_ONCE(b, 1);
+ WRITE_ONCE(b, 2);
do_something_else();
Signed-off-by: pierre Kuo <vichy.kuo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index d2b0a8d81258..08329cb857ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ equal to zero, in which case the compiler is within its rights to transform the above code into the following: q = READ_ONCE(a); - WRITE_ONCE(b, 1); + WRITE_ONCE(b, 2); do_something_else(); Given this transformation, the CPU is not required to respect the ordering |