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 <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
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.
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