On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > - in queue_lock(), immediately before getting the spinlock (which > will do the SAME ATOMIC INCREMENT, except it's just doing it on a > different member of the structure, namely the spinlock head)
Ok, so there's the "q->lock_ptr = &hb->lock" assignment in between, but if the ordering of that is critical, it should be documented in the memory ordering rules, because it sure is subtle and not obviously visible anywhere.. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/