Re: [PATCH] PPC lll_mutex_unlock_force write barrier

Steve Munroe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <OFE34FBAD8.C4A48BFF-ON86256D8F.0078621F-86256D8F.0078FF59@us.ibm.com>
Alexander Terekhov writes:

> Sort of. First off, unless I'm just missing and/or misunderstanding
> something, you've put it in the wrong place. Also, a write barrier 
> isn't enough here. mutex.unlock also needs a read barrier.

Actually I was refering to lll_mutex_unlock_force which stuffs a 0 into 
the lock word then calls lll_futex_wake. This is different from 
lll_mutex_unlock, which uses atomic_exchange_rel,  which includes all the 
required synchronization.
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