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Commit bf378d34 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering



The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old
comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and
add the missing barrier.

When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there
will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more
conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do.

Reported-by: default avatarVictor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarVictor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent cd657187
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