Re: [PATCH] drivers,crypto/cavium: Fix barrier barrier usage after atomic_set()

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:16:57AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Because it is not a Rmw operation, atomic_set() is not serialized,
> and therefore the 'upgradable' smp_mb__after_atomic() call after
> the atomic_set() is completely bogus (not to mention the comment
> could also use some love, but that's a different matter).
> 
> This patch replaces these with smp_mb(), which seems like the
> original intent of when the code was written.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

So what does this actually synchronise against?

Cheers,
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