Re: [PATCH v2] buffer: Fix I/O error due to ARM read-after-read hazard

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 12:54:35 EST


On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:09 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While you can add some barrier here, there may be other cases where this
> can go wrong.

Yeah, that patch isn't going to be accepted. We don't add random arch
workarounds to core header files like that - particularly when it's
not at all clear that there aren't hundreds of other cases where that
cpu errata can trigger..

Linus