> But we try to understand your fault scenario: How can the LOAD leak > into the critical section? As far as we understand the spin_unlock() > function also contains a memory barrier to prevent such a reordering > from happening. It does - it would be very interesting for someone to look at the assembly if this is making a difference. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html