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authorJoel Fernandes (Google)2023-08-04 16:27:45 +0000
committerPaul E. McKenney2023-10-09 09:40:53 -0700
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docs: memory-barriers: Add note on compiler transformation and address deps
The compiler has the ability to cause misordering by destroying address-dependency barriers if comparison operations are used. Add a note about this to memory-barriers.txt in the beginning of both the historical address-dependency sections and point to rcu-dereference.rst for more information. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk> Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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