Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] powerpc: allocate sys_membarrier system call number

Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-08-31T15:33:11Z

----- On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:54 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 13:56 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> Allow it to be used from SPU, since it should not have unwanted
>> side-effects.
>>
>> [ Untested on this architecture. To try it out: fetch linux-next/akpm,
>> apply this patch, build/run a membarrier-enabled kernel, and do make
>> kselftest. ]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
>> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
>
> Thanks.
>
> I get:
>
> $ ./membarrier_test
> membarrier MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY syscall available.
> membarrier: MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED success.
> membarrier: tests done!
>
> Which looks good.
>
> Assuming the membarrier support hits 4.3, I'll take this via my tree for 4.3
> also.

Great! I'll take care of your comments about self-tests,

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.