[v3,11/41] mips: reuse asm-generic/barrier.h

Leonid Yegoshin Leonid.Yegoshin at imgtec.com
Mon Jan 11 17:14:14 PST 2016


On 01/10/2016 06:18 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On mips dma_rmb, dma_wmb, smp_store_mb, read_barrier_depends,
> smp_read_barrier_depends, smp_store_release and smp_load_acquire  match
> the asm-generic variants exactly. Drop the local definitions and pull in
> asm-generic/barrier.h instead.
>
This statement doesn't fit MIPS barriers variations. Moreover, there is 
a reason to extend that even more specific, at least for 
smp_store_release and smp_load_acquire, look into

     http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10506/

- Leonid.




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