From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Navin P <navinp0304@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: memory order seq cst for atomics
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 17:09:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGczwTMv/RG6i4M7@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALO2TqKd7QYSM55a78M2v0xjJfw+DVdo0RtB5JH_nfD3HzUMoQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 08:15:12PM +0530, Navin P wrote:
> Hi,
> C11 and c++11 have memory order like memory_order_seq_cst .What is the
> equivalent in Linux kernel ?
> atomic64_inc(&var) ;
> __SMP_mb();
Please read Documentation/memory-barriers.txt in the kernel source tree.
It should answer all of your questions regarding this.
good luck!
greg k-h
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