linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/32] s390: reuse asm-generic/barrier.h

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:20:42 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/32] s390: reuse asm-generic/barrier.h

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:06:30PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On s390 read_barrier_depends, smp_read_barrier_depends
> smp_store_mb(), smp_mb__before_atomic and smp_mb__after_atomic match the
> asm-generic variants exactly. Drop the local definitions and pull in
> asm-generic/barrier.h instead.
> 
> This is in preparation to refactoring this code area.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h | 10 ++--------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> index 7ffd0b1..c358c31 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
> @@ -30,14 +30,6 @@
>  #define smp_rmb()			rmb()
>  #define smp_wmb()			wmb()
>  
> -#define read_barrier_depends()		do { } while (0)
> -#define smp_read_barrier_depends()	do { } while (0)
> -
> -#define smp_mb__before_atomic()		smp_mb()
> -#define smp_mb__after_atomic()		smp_mb()

As per:

  lkml.kernel.org/r/20150921112252.3c2937e1@...hwide

s390 should change this to barrier() instead of smp_mb() and hence
should not use the generic versions.
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