From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755401AbbITSpQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:45:16 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36999 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755096AbbITSpO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:45:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:45:03 -0700 From: Davidlohr Bueso To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Will Deacon , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Davidlohr Bueso Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics Message-ID: <20150920184503.GA19445@linux-q0g1.site> References: <1442743911-25366-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> <1442743911-25366-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso 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.