Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Downgrade UNLOCK+BLOCK
Historically, an UNLOCK+LOCK pair executed by one CPU, by one task, or on a given lock variable has implied a full memory barrier. In a recent LKML thread, the wisdom of this historical approach was called into question: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg65653.html, in part due to the memory-order complexities of low-handoff-overhead queued locks on x86 systems. This patch therefore removes this guarantee from the documentation, and further documents how to restore it via a new smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() primitive. Signed-off-by:Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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