[PATCH] s390: more efficient smp barriers

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Jan 10 2016 - 06:53:35 EST


As per: lkml.kernel.org/r/20150921112252.3c2937e1@mschwide
atomics imply a barrier on s390, so s390 should change
smp_mb__before_atomic and smp_mb__after_atomic to barrier() instead of
smp_mb() and hence should not use the generic versions.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

This is on top of arch barrier cleanup patchset,
will be included in v3 of that patchset.

arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
index 4d26fa4..5c8db3c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ do { \
___p1; \
})

+#define __smp_mb__before_atomic() barrier()
+#define __smp_mb__after_atomic() barrier()
+
#include <asm-generic/barrier.h>

#endif /* __ASM_BARRIER_H */
--
MST