On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:16 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OK, I'll mention that in the ppc code... but generic code shouldn't > rely on this anyway, right? (Or was it decided that spinlocks must > fence IO?). > > Would _io postfixed locks be a sane way to handle this?
It's unclear what spinlocks are supposed to do, but for ppc, I decided to be safe and put the fencing implicitely in spin_unlock. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
