RTC: assure proper memory ordering with respect to RTC_DEV_BUSY flag
We must make sure that the RTC_DEV_BUSY flag has proper lock semantics, i.e. that the RTC_DEV_BUSY stores clearing the flag don't get reordered before the preceeding stores and loads and vice versa. Spotted by Nick Piggin. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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