Re: [PATCH 2/2] membarrier: riscv: Provide core serializing command

[Andrea Parri]

> > The final version of this fix will likely depend on some machinery/code
> > introduced by 3ccfebedd8cf54 ("powerpc, membarrier: Skip memory barrier
> > in switch_mm()"); but, yes, nothing we can't safely adjust I think.
> 
> Ya, I guess we'll have to look to know for sure but hopefully it's
> manageable.

Absolutely.  One approach would be to follow what PowerPC did: AFAIU, before
3ccfebedd8cf54 membarrier/powerpc used to hard code the required barrier in
in finish_task_switch(), "masking" it as an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock(); riscv
could use a similar approach (though with a different/new mask function).
Alternatively, we could maybe keep the barrier in switch_mm().

But let me complete and send out v2 with the fix at stake...  this should give
us a more concrete basis to discuss about these matters.

  Andrea