[PATCH 1/4] arm64: topology: Implement basic CPU topology support

[catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 01:02:01PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> +static void update_siblings_masks(unsigned int cpuid)
> +{
> +	struct cpu_topology *cpu_topo, *cpuid_topo = &cpu_topology[cpuid];
> +	int cpu;
> +
> +	/* update core and thread sibling masks */
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> +		cpu_topo = &cpu_topology[cpu];
> +
> +		if (cpuid_topo->cluster_id != cpu_topo->cluster_id)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		cpumask_set_cpu(cpuid, &cpu_topo->core_sibling);
> +		if (cpu != cpuid)
> +			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &cpuid_topo->core_sibling);
> +
> +		if (cpuid_topo->core_id != cpu_topo->core_id)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		cpumask_set_cpu(cpuid, &cpu_topo->thread_sibling);
> +		if (cpu != cpuid)
> +			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &cpuid_topo->thread_sibling);
> +	}
> +	smp_wmb();

I now noticed there are a couple of smp_wmb() calls in this patch. What
are they for?

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Catalin