Re: [PATCH 2/2] membarrier: riscv: Provide core serializing command

[Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>]

> > So I should probably stick to 93917ad50972, which apparently selected
> > CONFIG_MEMBARRIER on RISC-V, for the Fixes: tag in question.
> 
> I think it goes further than that, because you can explicitly
> CONFIG_MEMBARRIER=y, see init/Kconfig:
> 
> config MEMBARRIER
>         bool "Enable membarrier() system call" if EXPERT
>         default y
>         help
>           Enable the membarrier() system call that allows issuing memory
>           barriers across all running threads, which can be used to distribute
>           the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming
>           pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of membarrier() and a
>           compiler barrier.
> 
>           If unsure, say Y.
> 
> Before 1464d00b27b2, riscv just happened to set it to =n in the defconfig.
> 
> I suspect the initial port of riscv merged after v4.14 was already broken.

I see.  Oh well, guess I'll have to leave this up to the maintainers then
(I believe I've never managed to build riscv that far), Palmer?


> > I'll look into adding the membarrier feature you mention (as a final/
> > follow-up patch), unless you or someone else want to take care of it.
> 
> I'll be happy to review it :)

Sweet!  :-)

  Andrea