Re: asm-generic: Disallow no-op mb() for SMP systems

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:25:49 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 04:00:35AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > I love your patch! Yet something to improve:  
> 
> Seriously? Bots have feelings?
> 
> > [auto build test ERROR on asm-generic/master]
> > [also build test ERROR on v4.15 next-20180202]
> > [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]
> > 
> > url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Peter-Zijlstra/asm-generic-Disallow-no-op-mb-for-SMP-systems/20180203-000108
> > base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git master
> > config: m32r-usrv_defconfig (attached as .config)
> > compiler: m32r-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.2.0  
> 
> Awesome, another broken architecture.. and this one is Orphaned :-(
> No maintainer to bug..

Renesas claim to still support the processor family so perhaps they can
provide a maintainer if you instead submit a patch to remove it from the
tree ;-)

>From the documentation however the processor only does explicit dual
issue instructions, and the SMP is cache coherent so I'm not convinced
there is a problem with it.


Alan