[PATCH 05/10] staging: erofs: add a full barrier in erofs_workgroup_unfreeze
Gao Xiang
gaoxiang25 at huawei.com
Thu Nov 22 21:56:32 AEDT 2018
Hi Greg,
On 2018/11/22 18:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Please document this memory barrier. It does not make much sense to
> me...
Because we need to make the other observers noticing the latest values modified
in this locking period before unfreezing the whole workgroup, one way is to use
a memory barrier and the other way is to use ACQUIRE and RELEASE. we selected
the first one.
Hmmm...ok, I will add a simple message to explain this, but I think that is
plain enough for a lock...
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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