Re: [PATCH 00/20] Remove Mysterious Macro Intended to Obscure Weird Behaviours (mmiowb())

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To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Remove Mysterious Macro Intended to Obscure Weird Behaviours (mmiowb())
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:41:24 -0800
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Lustig <dlustig@xxxxxxxxxx>, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20190301140348.25175-1-will.deacon@arm.com>
References: <20190301140348.25175-1-will.deacon@arm.com>

Love the acronym, and the series looks good to me.

Michael - can you check (or maybe you already did?) that this works
for ppc too, and doesn't have any gotcha's?

                      Linus

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