[PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC_CORE
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Wed Jun 16 02:28:43 PDT 2021
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 08:21:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On arm32, the only way to safely flush icache from usermode is to call
> cacheflush(2). This also handles any required pipeline flushes, so
> membarrier's SYNC_CORE feature is useless on arm. Remove it.
Yay! About time too.
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
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