Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] powerpc: allocate sys_membarrier system call number
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: 2015-08-31 15:33:11
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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: 2015-08-31 15:33:11
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----- On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:54 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:
On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 13:56 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:quoted
Allow it to be used from SPU, since it should not have unwanted side-effects. [ Untested on this architecture. To try it out: fetch linux-next/akpm, apply this patch, build/run a membarrier-enabled kernel, and do make kselftest. ] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.orgThanks. I get: $ ./membarrier_test membarrier MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY syscall available. membarrier: MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED success. membarrier: tests done! Which looks good. Assuming the membarrier support hits 4.3, I'll take this via my tree for 4.3 also.
Great! I'll take care of your comments about self-tests, Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com