C MP+polockmbonce+poacquiresilsil (* * Result: Never * * Do spinlocks combined with smp_mb__after_spinlock() provide order * to outside observers using spin_is_locked() to sense the lock-held * state, ordered by acquire? Note that when the first spin_is_locked() * returns false and the second true, we know that the smp_load_acquire() * executed before the lock was acquired (loosely speaking). *) { } P0(spinlock_t *lo, int *x) { spin_lock(lo); smp_mb__after_spinlock(); WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1); spin_unlock(lo); } P1(spinlock_t *lo, int *x) { int r1; int r2; int r3; r1 = smp_load_acquire(x); r2 = spin_is_locked(lo); r3 = spin_is_locked(lo); } exists (1:r1=1 /\ 1:r2=0 /\ 1:r3=1)