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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:58:11 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To:     Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/xchg/alpha: Remove memory barriers from the
 _local() variants
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:08:31PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> [+ Will]
> 
> I'm not sure how this happened; Will, you at least figure as Reported-by: ;-)

Thanks, this looks better to me. Have you build an Alpha kernel to check
that the various cmpxchg variants are producing the expected asm?

Will