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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> - ipc_lock() need a read_barrier_depends() to prevent indexing uninitialized new array on the read side. This is corresponding to the write memory barrier added in grow_ary() from Dipankar's patch to prevent indexing uninitialized array. - Replaced "wmb()" in IPC code with "smp_wmb()"."wmb()" produces a full write memory barrier in both UP and SMP kernels, while "smp_wmb()" provides a full write memory barrier in an SMP kernel, but only a compiler directive in a UP kernel. The same change are made for "rmb()". - Removed rmb() in ipc_get(). We do not need a read memory barrier there since ipc_get() is protected by ipc_ids.sem semaphore. - Added more comments about why write barriers and read barriers are needed (or not needed) here or there.
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