RE: Fix ia64 bit ops: Full barriers for bit operations returning a value

Chen, Kenneth W
2006-04-04T13:30:34Z

Christoph Lameter wrote on Monday, April 03, 2006 7:12 PM
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
>
> > Looks good to me.
> > Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
>
> Ummm.. Are you sure? The release should come before the acquire. The
> final store of the cmpxchg may be delayed until after stores following
> the cmpxchg?

I realized that. However, this patch is one step forward to fix current
deficiency even if it is not a full solution. Hence the ack. I also take
that as your intention to post this patch as well, no?

- Ken