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Commit 47b8f3ab authored by Elena Reshetova's avatar Elena Reshetova Committed by Ingo Molnar
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refcount_t: Add ACQUIRE ordering on success for dec(sub)_and_test() variants


This adds an smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() barrier on successful
decrease of refcounter value from 1 to 0 for refcount_dec(sub)_and_test
variants and therefore gives stronger memory ordering guarantees than
prior versions of these functions.

Co-developed-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarElena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548847131-27854-2-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 412f34a8
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