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Memory barriers are building blocks for concurrent code, hence provide a minimal set of them. The compiler barrier, barrier(), is implemented in inline asm instead of using core::sync::atomic::compiler_fence() because memory models are different: kernel's atomics are implemented in inline asm therefore the compiler barrier should be implemented in inline asm as well. Also it's currently only public to the kernel crate until there's a reasonable driver usage. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Elle Rhumsaa <elle@weathered-steel.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250719030827.61357-10-boqun.feng@gmail.com/
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.