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Date:   Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:12:36 +0200
From:   Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deadlock via recursive wakeup via RCU with threadirqs
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Hi Steve,

> As Paul stated, interrupts are synchronization points. Archs can only
> play games with ordering when dealing with entities outside the CPU
> (devices and other CPUs). But if you have assembly that has two stores,
> and an interrupt comes in, the arch must guarantee that the stores are
> done in that order as the interrupt sees it.

Hopefully I'm not derailing the conversation too much with my questions
... but I was wondering if we had any documentation (or inline comments)
elaborating on this "interrupts are synchronization points"?

Thanks,
  Andrea