linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] locking/qspinlock: Elide back-to-back RELEASE operations with smp

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Date:   Thu, 5 Apr 2018 19:28:08 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        mingo@...nel.org, boqun.feng@...il.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] locking/qspinlock: Elide back-to-back RELEASE
 operations with smp_wmb()

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:59:07PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> @@ -340,12 +341,17 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
>  		goto release;
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * Ensure that the initialisation of @node is complete before we
> +	 * publish the updated tail and potentially link @node into the
> +	 * waitqueue.
> +	 */
> +	smp_wmb();

Maybe an explicit note to where the matching barrier lives..