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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 00:08:41 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Saeed Bishara <saeed@...vell.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...vell.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	"Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Rampant ext3/4 corruption on 2.6.34-rc7 with VIVT ARM (Marvell
	88f5182)

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:47:11AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Now, in the case at hand, which is my ARM based NAS, I believe this
> is non cache-coherent and thus uses cache flush ops. I don't know ARM
> well enough but I would expect these to be implicit barriers. Russell ?
> Nico ?

ARMv5 doesn't have a weak memory ordering model, and doesn't have any
memory barrier instructions.
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