This should hopefully be the last posting of this series -- people felt it needed one more mostly because last time I typoed the linux-kernel email address. If there are no further comments, Ingo will merge these patches in the next few days. --- These patches introduce 2 new barrier primitives: smp_load_acquire(p) smp_store_release(p, v) See the first patch, which changes Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, to find the exact definitions of what an ACQUIRE/RELEASE barrier is -- previously known as LOCK/UNLOCK barriers. The second patch moves the smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic_{dec,inc}() barriers to asm/atomic.h for arc and hexagon -- they were already there for all other archs. This cleans up asm/barrier.h, and the third patch makes more agressive use of asm-generic/barrier.h to implement the simple cases. Then the fourth patch adds the new primitives. Previous versions were widely build tested -- this version is not, but it also not significantly different. These patches apply to: tip/master --- Changes since the last version -- lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213145657.265414969@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - fixed linux-kernel email address - updated the Documentation patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html