Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Cross-reference "tools/memory-model/"
A memory consistency model is now available for the Linux kernel [1], which "can (roughly speaking) be thought of as an automated version of memory-barriers.txt" and which is (in turn) "accompanied by extensive documentation on its use and its design". Inform the (occasional) reader of memory-barriers.txt of these developments. [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151687290114799&w=2 Co-developed-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Co-developed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: nborisov@suse.com Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This document is not a specification; it is intentionally (for the sake of
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brevity) and unintentionally (due to being human) incomplete. This document is
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meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but
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in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask.
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in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. Some doubts may be
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resolved by referring to the formal memory consistency model and related
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documentation at tools/memory-model/. Nevertheless, even this memory
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model should be viewed as the collective opinion of its maintainers rather
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than as an infallible oracle.
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To repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from
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hardware.
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