Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:06:52 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 08/18] memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache |
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Hello, Glauber.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:05:22PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > > Is there any rmb() pair? > > As far as I know, without rmb(), wmb() doesn't guarantee anything. > > > > There should be. But it seems I missed it. Speaking of which, I should
You probably can use read_barrier_depends().
> wmb() after the NULL assignment in release cache as well.
And you probably don't need that. dangling pointer is protected by RCU and there isn't any memory accesses which can paired with that anyway.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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