[PATCH v2 15/20] arm64: cmpxchg: avoid memory barrier on comparison failure
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jul 24 08:32:57 PDT 2015
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> cmpxchg doesn't require memory barrier semantics when the value
> comparison fails, so make the barrier conditional on success.
>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
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