Re: [patch] possible SMP races all over the place in wait_event

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:33:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>make this a non-issue: a spinlock has to guarantee write ordering anyway,
>otherwise it wouldn't be an effective spinlock..

Ok, agreed. We'll declare __wake_up as a function that imply a memory
barrier.

Andrea

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