linux-kernel - Re: smp_store

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2015 07:40:10 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	tony.luck@...el.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: smp_store_mb() oddity..

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 07:17:55PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> ---
> Subject: locking/arch: Make smp_store_mb() use smp_mb()
> 
> Linus noticed that there were a few smp_store_mb() implementations that
> used mb(), which is inconsistent with the new naming.
> 
> Since all smp_store_mb() users really are about SMP ordering, not IO
> ordering, change them all to be consistent.
> 
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> index e6f8615a11eb..a4dea6050c77 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>  #define smp_mb__before_atomic()		smp_mb()
>  #define smp_mb__after_atomic()		smp_mb()
> 
> -#define smp_store_mb(var, value)		do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); mb(); } while (0)
> +#define smp_store_mb(var, value)		do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); smp_mb(); } while (0)
> 
>  #define smp_store_release(p, v)						\

for the s390 part:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

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