Re: [PATCH] openrisc: define mb() as its mandatory

[Stafford Horne]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 11:09:05AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 05:58:49AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > Following Peter Z's patch ("asm-generic: Disallow no-op mb() for SMP
> > systems") which makes mb() mandatory for SMP architectures we define it
> > as l.msync.  On OpenRISC this will flush the current cores write buffer
> > and trigger remote cores to invalidate their caches of the written
> > memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/31/254
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > Notes:
> >   - Sorry, its been a while since we discussed this patch is the parent to this 
> >     still going in Peter?
> 
> Oops.. yes it should. It seems I also lost track of it. Thanks for the
> reminder!

No Problem,

If you think this patch makes sense I can just put it into my OpenRISC queue for
4.17.  I dont see any reason to wait for yours. Any thoughts?

-Stafford