linux-kernel - bad example in Documentation/atomic

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 18:01:43 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: bad example in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt ?

Hi,

I it looks like the example in the Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
file at line 232 is not quite right. The obj->active = 0 will
be delayed, but not further than spin_unlock() in obj_timeout().
Becaus spin_unlock() has a memory barrier.

I guess you would need to move spin_lock(&global_list_lock) to
obj_list_del() to make the example valid.

This confused me when I read the file.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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