Re: [Patch v2] rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 03:20:45 EST



Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since if we have locks, we don't need memory barriers any more, right?

Indeed - locks are implicit memory barriers.

David
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