I wrote:

Nick Piggin wrote:

quoted

You might find that these places that appear to need barriers are
buggy for other reasons anyway. Can you point to some in-tree code
we can have a look at?

I could, or could not, if I were through with auditing the code.  I
remembered one case and posted it (nodemgr_host_thread) which was safe
because msleep_interruptible provided the necessary barrier there, and
this implicit barrier is not in danger to be removed by future patches.

PS, just in case anybody holds his breath for more example code from me,
I don't plan to continue with an actual audit of the drivers I maintain.
It's an important issue, but my current time budget will restrict me to
look at it ad hoc, per case.  (Open bugs have higher priority than
potential bugs.)
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Stefan Richter
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