Hi Matthew, On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 06:02:58AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:41:19PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > + * smp_mb__after_spinlock() provides a full memory barrier between po-earlier > > + * lock acquisitions and po-later memory accesses. > > What does po-earlier mean? Partial order? "po" was intended as an abbreviation for "program order"; I should have kept the whole form..., thank you for the feedback. Andrea > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html