On 09/10/2015 10:50, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Not having actually read or thought about the issue at hand, its
> perfectly valid to pair an smp_mb() with either spin_lock() or
> spin_unlock().
>
> IOW. MB <-> {ACQUIRE, RELEASE} is a valid pairing.
In this case it's an smp_mb() (store-load barrier) being paired with
another smp_mb(), so spin_unlock()'s release is not enough.
Paolo
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