linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] powerpc: allocate sys

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Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:00:43 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] powerpc: allocate sys_membarrier system call
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On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 15:32 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:54 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@...erman.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.

> > $ ./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. None of them are critical so we can always fix them later.

cheers


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