Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1: kcryptd vs lockdep | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:38:16 +0800 |
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Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: > Also io->pending may need better protection - atomic, but missing memory > barriers? (May be getting away without sometimes due to side-effects of > other function calls, but needs doing properly.)
If it's using atomic_dec_and_test then that comes with an implicit memory barrier.
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