Re: [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Sun Sep 20 2015 - 14:45:21 EST


On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... by using acquire semantics where appropriate As such, weakly
ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when
issuing atomics.

Subject line is wrong. I'm assuming it should be acquire/release
rather than atomic/release.

Dear me, yes.
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