Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2008-10-19

Re: [patch] mm: fix anon_vma races

From: Paul Mackerras <hidden>
Date: 2008-10-18 10:49:24
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

Nick Piggin writes:
quoted
Not sure what you mean by causal consistency, but I assume it's the
I think it can be called transitive. Basically (assumememory starts off zeroed)
CPU0
x := 1

CPU1
if (x == 1) {
  fence
  y := 1
}

CPU2
if (y == 1) {
  fence
  assert(x == 1)
}
That's essentially the same as example 1 on page 415, so yes we are
talking about the same thing.

Paul.
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help