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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86 bitops.h commentary on instruction reordering
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Followup to:  <20040806170931.GA21683@logos.cnet>
By author: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > >
> > >Yes correct. *mb() usually imply barrier().
> > >
> > >About the flush, each architecture defines its own instruction for doing
> > >so,
> > > PowerPC has "sync" and "isync" instructions (to flush the whole cache
> > > and instruction cache respectively), MIPS has "sync" and so on..
> >
> > So, there is no platform independent way for doing that in the kernel?
>
> Not really. x86 doesnt have such an instruction.
>

Actually it does (sfence, lfence, mfence); they only apply to SSE
loads and stores since all other x86 operations are guaranteed to be
strictly ordered.

-hpa


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