Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:02:32PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> Yep.  Or you can use atomic_dec_return() instead of using a barrier.

Or you could use smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic_dec.

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