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SubjectRe: [PATCH] splice : two smp_mb() can be omitted
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 10:40, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Uh, there is nothing that says mutex_unlock or any unlock
> functions contain an implicit smp_mb(). What is given is that the
> lock and unlock obey aquire and release memory ordering,
> respectively.
>
> a = x;
> xxx_unlock
> b = y;
>
> In this situation, the load of y can be executed before that of x.
> And some architectures will even do so (i386 can, because the
> unlock is an unprefixed store; ia64 can, because it uses a release
> barrier in the unlock).

Hum... it seems your mutex_unlock() i386/x86_64 copy is not same as mine :)

Maybe we could document the fact that mutex_{lock|unlock}() has or has not an
implicit smp_mb().

If not, delete smp_mb() calls from include/asm-generic/mutex-dec.h

Ingo ?

Eric
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