Christoph Lameter wrote on Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:12 PM
> > The use of
> > smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
> > clear_bit( ... );
> >
> > is: all memory operations before this call will be visible before
> > the clear_bit(). To me, that's release semantics.
>
> What of it? Release semantics are not a full fence or memory barrier.
The API did not require a full fence. It is defined as a one way fence.
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