Re: [RFC][PATCH v3]: documentation,atomic: Add new documents
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 08:52:40 EST
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Also, wouldn't this problem also arise if your atomics were built using a
> spinlock where unlock had release semantics?
I'm hoping none of our spnilock based atomics have weak ordering.
Spinlock based atomics are a little crazy to begin with, making them
weak *shudder*.