* Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My assumption is that the xchg() (inside update_current()) acts as an > effective wmb(). If xchg() does not have this property, then this > code is broken and patch 6/14 should also add a: xchg() is a strong implicit memory barrier, it implies smp_mb(). (historic sidenote: it was the very first SMP primitive we had in Linux.) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html