[PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC_CORE

Andy Lutomirski luto at kernel.org
Thu Jun 17 17:07:04 PDT 2021


On 6/15/21 8:21 PM, 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.

After all the discussion, I'm dropping this patch.



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