linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] atomics/treewide: rework ordering barriers

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Message-ID: <20180605141520.GX12198@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2018 16:15:20 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] atomics/treewide: rework ordering barriers

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 03:02:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Locally I've made this:
> 
> __atomic_acquire_fence()
> __atomic_release_fence()
> __atomic_pre_fence()
> __atomic_post_fence()
> 
> ... but I'm more than happy to rename however you prefer.

No that's fine. As long as we're rid of the whole mb_before_release and
friends.

Thanks!