On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Andrew Morton wrote: > - free_kmem_cache_nodes() frees the cache node before nulling out a > reference to it > > - init_kmem_cache_nodes() publishes the cache node before initializing it > > Neither of these matter at runtime because the cache nodes cannot be > looked up by any other thread. But it's neater and more consistent to > reorder these.
The compiler or processor may reorder them at will anyways. But if its tidier.... Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
