[PATCH] spinlock: don't use deprecated barriers on ARMv7

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:20:29PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:42:33PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > +static inline void smp_sev(void)
> > > +{
> > > +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K)
> > > +	dsb();
> > > +	__asm__ __volatile__ ("sev" : : : "memory");
> > 
> > Why are you introducing a compiler memory barrier where there was none
> > before?
> 
> I've removed it (and the additional memory barrier from the dsb()
> helper) in the updated patch below.  I've also moved the helper into
> spinlock.h itself, to avoid unnecessarily cluttering system.h:
> 
> >From a701fe2c665f9d80aa2c96ae6f312a25ee1136a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:26 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] spinlock: don't use deprecated barriers on ARMv7
> 
> On ARMv7, the use of the cp15 operations for barriers is deprecated in
> favour of the isb, dsb, and dmb instructions.  Change the locking
> functions to use the appropriate type of dsb for the architecture being
> built for.

This version looks better, thanks.  Care to send it to the patch system?