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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:41:17 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/25] openrisc: add spinlock implementation
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:11:39AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> +static inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
> +{
> +	smp_mb();
> +	lock->tickets.owner++;
> +}

This is putting a lot of trust in the compiler, nothing is volatile so
it can do horrible things.