Re: [v3,11/41] mips: reuse asm-generic/barrier.h

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:26:16PM -0800, Leonid Yegoshin wrote:

And all that is out-of-topic here in my mind. I just want to be sure that
this patchset still provides a use of a specific lightweight SYNCs on MIPS
vs bold and heavy generalized "SYNC 0" in any case.

- Leonid.

Of course it does. All this patchset does is rename smp_mb/rmb/wmb
to __smp_mb()/__smp_rmb()/__smp_wmb()
and then asm-generic does #define smp_mb __smp_mb
or #define smp_mb barrier depending on CONFIG_SMP.

Why is that needed? So we can implement
[PATCH v3 28/41] asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers

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