* Inserts memory barriers on architectures that require them (currently only
* Alpha) and documents which pointers are protected by RCU.
*
+ * The compiler memory barrier in LOAD_SHARED() ensures that value-speculative
+ * optimizations (e.g. VSS: Value Speculation Scheduling) does not perform the
+ * data read before the pointer read by speculating the value of the pointer.
+ * Correct ordering is ensured because the pointer is read as a volatile access.
+ * This acts as a global side-effect operation, which forbids reordering of
+ * dependent memory operations. Note that such concern about dependency-breaking
+ * optimizations will eventually be taken care of by the "memory_order_consume"
+ * addition to forthcoming C++ standard.
+ *
* Should match rcu_assign_pointer() or rcu_xchg_pointer().
*/
#define YIELD_READ (1 << 0)
#define YIELD_WRITE (1 << 1)
-/* Updates without DEBUG_FULL_MB are much slower. Account this in the delay */
-#ifdef DEBUG_FULL_MB
+/*
+ * Updates without CONFIG_URCU_AVOID_SIGNALS are much slower. Account this in
+ * the delay.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_URCU_AVOID_SIGNALS
/* maximum sleep delay, in us */
#define MAX_SLEEP 50
#else
}
#endif
-#ifdef DEBUG_FULL_MB
+#ifdef CONFIG_URCU_AVOID_SIGNALS
static inline void reader_barrier()
{
smp_mb();