linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC

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Message-ID: <20210616092843.GZ22278@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:28:43 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] membarrier: Remove arm (32) support for SYNC_CORE

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 08:21:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On arm32, the only way to safely flush icache from usermode is to call
> cacheflush(2).  This also handles any required pipeline flushes, so
> membarrier's SYNC_CORE feature is useless on arm.  Remove it.

Yay! About time too.

Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

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