Synchronizing auxiliary mutex data

[Torvald Riegel]

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 15:40 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jun 20 2017, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I described exactly that above.  It is guaranteed for the code above by
> > the memory model.  Implementations of the memory model (so in our case,
> > the compiler and the HW) have to ensure that.  For example, in the x86
> > memory model, acquire and release MO are implicit, so because the
> > compiler is not allowed to reorder in this case, the HW ensures that
> > lock()'s write to owner happens after unlock's write to owner.
> 
> What about the read in the locking thread?

I have answered that in my previous emails.