Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
Christoph Lameter wrote on Monday, April 03, 2006 11:33 AMNote that this only fixes up the bit operations if used together with theearlier fix for the clear_bit barriers. We still need a fix for general atomic operations.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>Looks good to me. Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
I don't think my concern about this approach was ever answered: an acquire + release combination will always allow memory operations to move past the atomic operation, won't it? I would have thought you'd need release + acquire. --Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -
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