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SubjectRe: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:12:23 PDT, Randy Dunlap said:

> +
> +24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
> + source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.

"what they are doing" will almost always be "flush value to RAM" or similar.
How about this instead:

+ 24: All memory barriers ({e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
+ source code that explains the race condition being prevented, and states
+ the location of the other code or hardware feature that races with this.
+
+ An example comment:
+
+ /*
+ * If we don't do a wmb() here, the RBFROBNIZ register on the XU293
+ * card will get confused and wedge the hardware...
+ */
+ wmb();
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