From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, jikos@suse.cz, jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: wmb() confusion in system.h
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:20:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304122037.GA29777@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080303114909.GA23816@elf.ucw.cz>
* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Comment says wmb is a nop, but it is implemented as lock addl below...
> Should it be compiled to nop if we know we are running on "good" Intel
> cpu?
>
> At least remove confusing comment for now.
agreed - that comment is pretty much out of date. I've applied your
patch.
Ingo
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2008-03-03 11:49 Pavel Machek
2008-03-04 12:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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