locking/Documentation: Clarify failed cmpxchg() memory ordering semantics
A failed cmpxchg does not provide any memory ordering guarantees, a property that is used to optimise the cmpxchg implementations on Alpha, PowerPC and arm64. This patch updates atomic_ops.txt and memory-barriers.txt to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150716151006.GH26390@arm.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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