Re: [RFC][PATCH v3]: documentation,atomic: Add new documents

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

> Also, wouldn't this problem also arise if your atomics were built using a
> spinlock where unlock had release semantics?

I'm hoping none of our spnilock based atomics have weak ordering.
Spinlock based atomics are a little crazy to begin with, making them
weak *shudder*.