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Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx

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On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 11:24:38AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 09:07:59PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > This defines __smp_xxx barriers for arm,
> > for use by virtualization.
> > 
> > smp_xxx barriers are removed as they are
> > defined correctly by asm-generic/barriers.h
> > 
> > This reduces the amount of arch-specific boiler-plate code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> In combination with patch 14, this looks like it should result in no
> change to the resulting code.
> 
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> My only concern is that it gives people an additional handle onto a
> "new" set of barriers - just because they're prefixed with __*
> unfortunately doesn't stop anyone from using it (been there with
> other arch stuff before.)
> 
> I wonder whether we should consider making the smp memory barriers
> inline functions, so these __smp_xxx() variants can be undef'd
> afterwards, thereby preventing drivers getting their hands on these
> new macros?

That'd be tricky to do cleanly since asm-generic depends on
ifndef to add generic variants where needed.

But it would be possible to add a checkpatch test for this.


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[PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-12-31 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-02 12:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-01-03 10:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-04 14:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-01-04 15:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-04 15:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-01-05 15:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-01-04 21:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 17/32] arm: define __smp_xxx "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-01-04 21:20 +0100

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