On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:04:34PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > This patch introduces three new ordering semantics for these operations: > > - *_relaxed: No ordering guarantees. This is similar to what we have > already for the non-return atomics (e.g. atomic_add). > > - *_acquire: ACQUIRE semantics, similar to smp_load_acquire. > > - *_release: RELEASE semantics, similar to smp_store_release.
Do we want to further specify that for the RmW operations the Read/load will provide the acquire and the Write/store the release? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
