On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 12:22 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Barriers are a complicated topic, a source of confusion, and their > incorrect > use is a common cause of bugs. It *really* doesn't help when Xen's > API is the > same as Linux, but its ABI different. > > Bring the two back in line, so programmers stand a chance of actually > getting > their usage correct. > > Drop the links in the comment, both of which are now stale. Instead, > refer to > the vendor system manuals. > Does it perhaps make sense to link this:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt > No functional change. > IAC, FWIW: > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggi...@citrix.com> Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
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