On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I thought that all atomic RMW instructions are memory barrier. On x86 they are. Not necessarily elsewhere. > If they are not, what kind of barrier should be added? smp_mb__before_atomic_xyz() and smp_mb__after_atomic_xyz() will do it, and are no-op (well, barriers - I don't think it matters) on x86. Linus -- 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