On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 11:26 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > In addition, the following code in kfifo_get() does this: > > *(typeof(__tmp->type))__val = \ > (__is_kfifo_ptr(__tmp) ? \ > ((typeof(__tmp->type))__kfifo->data) : \ > (__tmp->buf) \ > )[__kfifo->out & __tmp->kfifo.mask]; \ > smp_wmb(); \ > __kfifo->out++; \ > > It looks like the smp_wmb() should really be smp_mb(), because it > separates the _read_ for val from the _write_ of kfifo->out.
But where is kfifo->out read at all? Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/