Thread (106 messages) 106 messages, 15 authors, 2016-01-11

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 33/34] xenbus: use virt_xxx barriers

From: David Vrabel <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-04 11:32:11
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mips, linux-s390, linux-um, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux

On 31/12/15 19:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c uses
full memory barriers to communicate with the other side.

For guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb
would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if
a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host.

Switch to virt_xxx barriers which serve this exact purpose.
Acked-by: David Vrabel <redacted>

If you're feeling particularly keen there's a rmb() consume_one_event()
in drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c that can be converted to virt_rmb()
as well.

David
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