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Paul E. McKenney authored
Nothing in the control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt says that control dependencies don't extend beyond the end of the if-statement containing the control dependency. Worse yet, in many situations, they do extend beyond that if-statement. In particular, the compiler cannot destroy the control dependency given proper use of READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE(). However, a weakly ordered system having a conditional-move instruction provides the control-dependency guarantee only to code within the scope of the if-statement itself. This commit therefore adds words and an example demonstrating this limitation of control dependencies. Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160615230817.GA18039@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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