linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: relax unthrottle memory barrier

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:33:28 -0800
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: relax unthrottle memory barrier

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Johan Hovold wrote:

>Commit a8d78d9f3856 ("USB: serial: clean up throttle handling")
>converted the throttle handling to use atomic bitops. This means that we
>can relax the smp_mb() in unthrottle() to smp_mb__after_atomic(), which
>for example is a no-op on architectures like x86 that provide fully
>ordered atomics.
>
>Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>