Re: [REPOST-v2] sched: Prevent wakeup to enter critical sectionneedlessly

[Alan Cox]

> But we try to understand your fault scenario: How can the LOAD leak
> into the critical section? As far as we understand the spin_unlock()
> function also contains a memory barrier to prevent such a reordering
> from happening.

It does - it would be very interesting for someone to look at the assembly
if this is making a difference.

Alan
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