set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I
think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches
seem to do just this.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
(*) set_mb(var, value)
- This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write
+ This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.