> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes the spinlock problems in read_lock/write_lock and also some
> > alpha SMP race where clear_bit isn't enforcing a memory barrier
>
> Why would clear_bit() be a memory barrier?
Because historically it sort of was. This came up with the old PPP code
for one.
> Anything that expects clear_bit() to be a memory barrier should be fixed.
No argument about that however.
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