On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > This defines __smp_xxx barriers for arm, > for use by virtualization. > > smp_xxx barriers are removed as they are > defined correctly by asm-generic/barriers.h > > This reduces the amount of arch-specific boiler-plate code. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> In combination with patch 14, this looks like it should result in no change to the resulting code. Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> My only concern is that it gives people an additional handle onto a "new" set of barriers - just because they're prefixed with __* unfortunately doesn't stop anyone from using it (been there with other arch stuff before.) I wonder whether we should consider making the smp memory barriers inline functions, so these __smp_xxx() variants can be undef'd afterwards, thereby preventing drivers getting their hands on these new macros? -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.
