[RFC PATCH 0/4] b.L: Memory barriers and miscellaneous tidyups
Dave Martin
dave.martin at linaro.org
Tue Jan 15 12:42:42 EST 2013
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:29:22PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.
OK, I wasn't sure whether you'd already done that, but figured the patch
would be trivial to throw away (it's not like I invested a lot of time
in that one!)
I've done my best with the barriers, but if you have any concerns about
correctness, let me know.
Cheers
---Dave
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