Stefan Richter wrote:
> Sounds to me like either struct xyz_host { atomic_t removed; } would do
> the job, or that actually wider regions of mmc_host_remove() and
> mmc_detect_change() need to be serialized.
>   

AFAIK, an atomic_t doesn't guarantee any ordering, just atomicity. So an
atomic_t with a barrier would be sufficient. But barriers are mostly
voodoo that few people understand ;)

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