Re: [PATCH 2/3] generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Feb 19 2009 - 03:34:12 EST


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:40 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> In the meantime, I nominate the following comment at the end of
> csd_lock():
>
> /*
> * prevent CPU from reordering the above assignment to ->flags
> * with any subsequent assignments to other fields of the
> * specified call_single_data structure.
> */
>
> smp_mb(); /* See above block comment. */

Done, thanks Paul!

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