[PATCH 1/6] arm: Fix in-correct barrier usage in SWP{B} emulation

Catalin Marinas
2014-08-27T16:40:17Z

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> According to the ARM ARMv7, explicit barriers are necessary when using
> synchronisation primitives such as SWP{B}. The use of these
> instructions does not automatically imply a barrier and any ordering
> requirements by the software must be explicitly expressed with the use
> of suitable barriers.
>
> Based on this, remove the barriers from SWP{B} emulation.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>

This patch is independent to the SWP emulation for arm64 series. Unless
Russell has any objections, you should send it to his patch system (git
send-email to patches at arm.linux.org.uk with "KernelVersion: v3..." after
the commit log; I hope Russell drops the KernelVersion requirement some
day ;)).

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Catalin