Re: [PATCH 4/9] firewire: don't use PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 06:01:29PM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() is only for ordering memory operations
> between two spin-locked sections on either the same lock or by
> the same task/cpu. Like:
> 
>    i = 1
>    spin_unlock(lock1)
>    spin_lock(lock2)
>    smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
>    j = 1
> 
> This guarantees that the store to j happens after the store to i.
> Without it, a cpu can
> 
>    spin_lock(lock2)
>    j = 1
>    i = 1
>    spin_unlock(lock1)

Hmmm?  I'm pretty sure that's a full barrier.  Local processor is
always in order (w.r.t. the compiler).

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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