Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754534AbYH0CQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754139AbYH0CQl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:41 -0400 Received: from 166-70-238-42.ip.xmission.com ([166.70.238.42]:44501 "EHLO ns1.wolfmountaingroup.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754114AbYH0CQk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:40 -0400 Message-ID: <36126.166.70.238.46.1219801758.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <87prnw9o6m.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <200808210250.m7L2obNX028353@wolfmountaingroup.com> <48AD5A21.7020801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <43593.166.70.238.46.1219321595.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <200808212337.38626.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <48ADD8DE.3010209@goop.org> <51467.166.70.238.43.1219551931.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <87prnw9o6m.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:49:18 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb: Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger 2.6.27-rc4 released From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com To: "Andi Kleen" Cc: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, "Linus Torvalds" , "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , "Nick Piggin" , "Stefan Richter" , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Peter Zijlstra" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David Howells" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 32 > jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com writes: > >> Results from Analysis of GCC volatile/memory barriers > > So the result was that barrier()s actually worked? Great. > yes. > BTW if you did this work it might be worthwhile to go one further > step: gcc has a test suite where they run small programs and have a > simple facility to scan the resulting assembler code for specific > patterns. If you could bring your examples into that format (as in > being stand alone compiled and have a simple "yes/no" pattern to > check) and let it be included there that might make sure this always > keeps working in the future. Yep. > > -Andi > ok. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/