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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-12-28 16:54:33 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-12-28 16:54:33 -0800 |
commit | 3c92ec8ae91ecf59d88c798301833d7cf83f2179 (patch) | |
tree | 08a38cd3523c42bd49882f17cd501fd879e7ca1c /arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h | |
parent | c4c9f0183b7c4e97836e8fecbb67898b06c47e78 (diff) | |
parent | ca9153a3a2a7556d091dfe080e42b0e67881fff6 (diff) |
Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
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Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h index d6648c14332..2a4be19a92c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h @@ -23,15 +23,17 @@ * read_barrier_depends() prevents data-dependent loads being reordered * across this point (nop on PPC). * - * We have to use the sync instructions for mb(), since lwsync doesn't - * order loads with respect to previous stores. Lwsync is fine for - * rmb(), though. Note that rmb() actually uses a sync on 32-bit - * architectures. + * *mb() variants without smp_ prefix must order all types of memory + * operations with one another. sync is the only instruction sufficient + * to do this. * - * For wmb(), we use sync since wmb is used in drivers to order - * stores to system memory with respect to writes to the device. - * However, smp_wmb() can be a lighter-weight lwsync or eieio barrier - * on SMP since it is only used to order updates to system memory. + * For the smp_ barriers, ordering is for cacheable memory operations + * only. We have to use the sync instruction for smp_mb(), since lwsync + * doesn't order loads with respect to previous stores. Lwsync can be + * used for smp_rmb() and smp_wmb(). + * + * However, on CPUs that don't support lwsync, lwsync actually maps to a + * heavy-weight sync, so smp_wmb() can be a lighter-weight eieio. */ #define mb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory") #define rmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory") @@ -45,14 +47,14 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SMP #ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC -# define SMPWMB lwsync +# define SMPWMB LWSYNC #else # define SMPWMB eieio #endif #define smp_mb() mb() -#define smp_rmb() rmb() -#define smp_wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (__stringify(SMPWMB) : : :"memory") +#define smp_rmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (stringify_in_c(LWSYNC) : : :"memory") +#define smp_wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (stringify_in_c(SMPWMB) : : :"memory") #define smp_read_barrier_depends() read_barrier_depends() #else #define smp_mb() barrier() |