Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] powerpc: allocate sys_membarrier system call number

On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 15:32 +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

----- On Aug 31, 2015, at 2:54 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:

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On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 13:56 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

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Allow it to be used from SPU, since it should not have unwanted
side-effects.

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$ ./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. None of them are critical so we can always fix them later.

cheers