[RFC PATCH 0/4] b.L: Memory barriers and miscellaneous tidyups

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Dave Martin wrote:

> After much head-scratching and discussion, I have concluded that we
> need comprehensive memory barriers in order to ensure that the
> low-level synchronisation code executes robustly on all platforms.
> 
> DSBs are excessive on most situations though, so many DSBs can be
> replces with DMBs.
> 
> As was observed in review, providing a C interface to the vlocks
> makes little sense, so this series gets rid of it.

Thanks.  I have already removed the C stuff in my version but I'll merge 
the rest no problem.


Nicolas