[PATCH 05/10] ARM: realview: remove private barrier implementation

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Feb 27 04:25:42 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> The realview barrier implementation tries to avoid calling outer_sync in order
> to not lock up as a result of a bug in the l220 cache controller.
>
> This gets in the way of the multiplatform support, but we can still remove
> it if we make sure that the outer_sync function never gets called, by replacing
> the function pointer with NULL, right after initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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