[PATCH v4 0/4] ARM mandatory barriers

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 19 10:10:12 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:48 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Updated series on the ARM mandatory barriers. As per Russell's
> suggestion, most platform seem to define the mb() as dsb(); outer_sync()
> and it makes sense to make this the default (if CONFIG_OUTER_CACHE_SYNC
> is defined). The patch still allows per-platform barriers via the
> CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_BARRIERS option.
> 
> 
> Catalin Marinas (4):
>       ARM: Move the outer_cache definitions into a separate file
>       ARM: Add outer_cache_fns.sync function pointer
>       ARM: Add L2x0 outer_sync() support
>       ARM: Change the mandatory barriers implementation

I based the series on some of my other patches, so just applying these
patches on top of mainline wouldn't even compile. I'll repost cleaner
patches shortly (v5).

-- 
Catalin




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