Re: Q: schedule() and implied barriers on arm64

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:19:48PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> ... and the 'normal' code will have a control hazard somewhere, followed
> by the implicit ISB in exception return, so there's a barrier of sorts
> there too.

Which exception return?

> The problem is that people say "full barrier" without defining what it
> really means, and we end up going round the houses on things like
> transitivity (which ctrl + isb doesn't always give you).

I pretty much meant smp_mb() here :-)
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