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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
- (5) LOCK operations.
+ (5) ACQUIRE operations.
- (6) UNLOCK operations.
+ (6) RELEASE operations.
The above is usually pretty simple (you usually need and want only one
spinlock for most things - using more than one spinlock can make things a