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Date:   Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:53:20 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
        LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
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        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: Adding plain accesses and detecting data races in the LKMM
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 09:50:03AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > Another question is "should the kernel permit smp_mb__{before,after}*()
> > anywhere other than immediately before or after the primitive being
> > strengthened?"
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> How would the kernel forbid other constructions?

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							Thanx, Paul