Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] x86: use exit_lazy_tlb rather than membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode

Nicholas Piggin
2020-07-13T13:47:26Z

Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of July 13, 2020 2:45 pm:
> Excerpts from Andy Lutomirski's message of July 11, 2020 3:04 am:
>> Also, as it stands, I can easily see in_irq() ceasing to promise to
>> serialize. There are older kernels for which it does not promise to
>> serialize. And I have plans to make it stop serializing in the
>> nearish future.
>
> You mean x86's return from interrupt? Sounds fun... you'll konw where to
> update the membarrier sync code, at least :)

Oh, I should actually say Mathieu recently clarified a return from
interrupt doesn't fundamentally need to serialize in order to support
membarrier sync core.

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-July/214171.html

So you may not need to do anything more if you relaxed it.

Thanks,
Nick