[Question] bluetooth/{bnep,cmtp,hidp}: memory barriers
From: Andrea Parri
Date: Sun Jul 29 2018 - 23:10:46 EST
Hi,
I'm currently puzzled by the the three calls to smp_mb__before_atomic()
in bnep_session(), cmtp_session() and hidp_session_run() respectively:
On the one hand, these barriers provide no guarantee on the subsequent
atomic_read(s->terminate) (as the comments preceding the barriers seem
to suggest), because atomic_read() is not a read-modify-write.
On the other hand, I'm currently unable to say *why such an "mb" would
be required: not being too familiar with this code, I figured I should
ask before sending a patch. ;-)
Andrea