Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] Provide atomics and bitops implemented with ISO C++11 atomics

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 04:10:37PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>  (1) We could weaken the kernel memory model to for the benefit of arches
>      that have instructions that employ explicit acquire/release barriers -
>      but that may cause data races to occur based on assumptions we've
>      already made.  Note, however, that powerpc already seems to have a
>      weaker memory model.

Linus always vehemently argues against weakening our memory model.
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