On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:26:16PM -0800, Leonid Yegoshin wrote: > And all that is out-of-topic here in my mind. I just want to be sure that > this patchset still provides a use of a specific lightweight SYNCs on MIPS > vs bold and heavy generalized "SYNC 0" in any case. > > - Leonid. Of course it does. All this patchset does is rename smp_mb/rmb/wmb to __smp_mb()/__smp_rmb()/__smp_wmb() and then asm-generic does #define smp_mb __smp_mb or #define smp_mb barrier depending on CONFIG_SMP. Why is that needed? So we can implement [PATCH v3 28/41] asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers -- MST
