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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] powerpc: optimise smp_wmb
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:02:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211385735.8297.204.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521154701.GH8897@wotan.suse.de>


On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 17:47 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> OK, but I just don't understand what the problem is... your synch.h
> has
> 
> #ifdef __powerpc64__
> #define __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
> #endif
> 
> #ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
> #    define LWSYNC      lwsync
> #else
> #    define LWSYNC      sync
> #endif
> 

This is mostly useless then since lwsync is just a sync to a processor
that doesn't know it (it's a sync with a reservd bit set) :-) Or it's
just to make gas happy if you specify a processor type that doesn't have
lwsync ?

Paul, do we have a case of a 32 bits CPU that chokes on the added bit ?

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 14:10 [patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 14:12 ` [patch 2/2] powerpc: optimise smp_wmb Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:26   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:34     ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:43       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:47         ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 16:02           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-05-21 20:51             ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-21 16:01         ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 20:12           ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-21 20:44             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 22:07               ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-22  0:30             ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 20:16   ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-05-21 15:27 ` [patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-21 15:32   ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-21 15:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-23  2:14     ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-23  4:40       ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-23  4:53         ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-23  5:48           ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-23  6:40             ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-26  1:38               ` Nick Piggin

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