From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755258AbbITSWn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:22:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]:37986 "EHLO mail-ig0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754328AbbITSWm (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:22:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1442743911-25366-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> References: <1442743911-25366-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> <1442743911-25366-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 11:22:41 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ycEA0AZgDOQy3LFBMmIklsxppTM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] locking/mutex: Relax to atomic/release semantics From: Linus Torvalds To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Will Deacon , "Paul E. McKenney" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Davidlohr Bueso Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > ... by using acquire semantics where appropriate As such, weakly > ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when > issuing atomics. Subject line is wrong. I'm assuming it should be acquire/release rather than atomic/release. Linus