C MP+polockonce+poacquiresilsil (* * Result: Sometimes * * Do spinlocks 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); 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)