alistair23-linux/arch
Paul Mackerras 4c75f84f2c powerpc: Add compiler memory barrier to mtmsr macro
On 32-bit non-Book E, local_irq_restore() turns into just mtmsr(),
which doesn't currently have a compiler memory barrier.  This means
that accesses to memory inside a local_irq_save/restore section,
or a spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore section on UP, can
be reordered by the compiler to occur outside that section.

To fix this, this adds a compiler memory barrier to mtmsr for both
32-bit and 64-bit.  Having a compiler memory barrier in mtmsr makes
sense because it will almost always be changing something about the
context in which memory accesses are done, so in general we don't want
memory accesses getting moved from one side of an mtmsr to the other.

With the barrier in mtmsr(), some of the explicit barriers in
hw_irq.h are now redundant, so this removes them.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-15 13:27:37 +10:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
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cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
frv FRV: Fix interaction with new generic header stuff 2009-06-13 13:17:28 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
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m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
m68knommu module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries. 2009-06-12 21:47:05 +09:30
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
mn10300 headers_check fix: mn10300, setup.h 2009-06-14 11:51:12 +05:30
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2009-06-12 18:15:51 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Add compiler memory barrier to mtmsr macro 2009-06-15 13:27:37 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-06-14 13:46:25 -07:00
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