On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:07:25AM +0000, Ma, Xindong wrote:
> I've already aware that they've protected by spinlock, this is why I adding a 
> memory barrier to fix it.

That doesn't make sense.. the spinlocks should provide the required
serialization, there's nothing to fix.

> I reproduced this issue several times on android which running on IA dual 
> core.

I think you need to be more specific, in particular, if spinlocks do not
provide serialization on your IA32 device, I'd call that thing broken.
Adding random memory barriers is _WRONG_.


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