On 08/31, Boqun Feng wrote: > > Fair enough, I went too far. How about just a single paragraph saying > that: > > The wake_up(), wait_event() and their friends have proper barriers in > them, but these implicity barriers are only for the correctness for > sleep and wakeup. So don't rely on these barriers for things that are > neither wait-conditons nor task states. > > Is that OK to you?
Ask Paul ;) but personally I agree. To me, the only thing a user should know about wake_up/try_to_wake_up and barriers is that you do not need another barrier between setting condition and waking up. Oleg. -- 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/
