memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock

Adding smp_mb__after_lock define to be used as a smp_mb call after
a lock.

Making it nop for x86, since {read|write|spin}_lock() on x86 are
full memory barriers.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index 252b245cfcf..4be57ab0347 100644
--- a/include/linux/spinlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ do {								\
 #endif /*__raw_spin_is_contended*/
 #endif
 
+/* The lock does not imply full memory barrier. */
+#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SMP_MB_AFTER_LOCK
+static inline void smp_mb__after_lock(void) { smp_mb(); }
+#endif
+
 /**
  * spin_unlock_wait - wait until the spinlock gets unlocked
  * @lock: the spinlock in question.