Re: [PATCH 3/3] kref: Remove the memory barriers

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 03:55:40 EST


On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:48 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> For kref, maybe it is still multiple operations done on one cpu vs them
> being visible on another, but seems a bit implicit, see the common kref
> usage below:
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> A:kref_init(&obj->ref)

how does CPU0 get a ref to obj?

> B:kref_get(&obj->ref)
> C:access obj E:access obj
> F:kref_put(&ojb->ref)
> D:kref_put(obj->ref)
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