Re: [PATCH for-4.17 2/2] powerpc: Remove smp_mb() from arch_spin_is_locked()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 01:04:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:25:37PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Documenting it would definitely be good, but even then I'd be inclined
> > to leave the barrier in our implementation. Matching the documented
> > behaviour is one thing, but the actual real-world behaviour on well
> > tested platforms (ie. x86) is more important.
> 
> By that argument you should switch your spinlock implementation to RCpc
> and include that SYNC in either lock or unlock already ;-)

*RCsc* obviously... clearly I need to wake up moar.

> Ideally we'd completely eradicate the *_is_locked() crud from the
> kernel, not sure how feasable that really is, but it's a good goal. At
> that point the whole issue of the barrier becomes moot of course.