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

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Message-ID: <20200210093819.GB3539@localhost>
Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:38:19 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: relax unthrottle memory barrier

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 07:33:28AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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>

Thanks for the review. Now applied.

Johan