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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:55:10 +0200
From: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH v2 1/6] 9p: Fix comment on smp_wmb
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:02:20 -0700
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> The previous comment misled me into thinking the barrier wasn't needed
> at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

>  net/9p/client.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
> index 18c5271910dc..999eceb8af98 100644
> --- a/net/9p/client.c
> +++ b/net/9p/client.c
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ void p9_client_cb(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req, int status)
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * This barrier is needed to make sure any change made to req before
> -	 * the other thread wakes up will indeed be seen by the waiting side.
> +	 * the status change is visible to another thread
>  	 */
>  	smp_wmb();
>  	req->status = status;