On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 at 12:01, Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Do we need a new ARCH flag? I'm confused by that question. That's clearly exactly what that ARCH_HAS_ACQUIRE_RELEASE is. Obviously all architectures "have" it - in the sense that we always have access to a "smp_load_acquire()/smp_store_release()". But if the architecture doesn't support it natively, the old rmb/wmb model may be preferred. Although maybe we're at the point where we don't even care about that. Linus