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

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:40:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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 return to userspace after the interrupt/fault/system call that got us
into the kernel.

> > 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 :-)

In which case, we don't provide the transitivity guarantees that you would
get from an smp_mb().

Will
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