>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Getz [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:49 AM
>To: [email protected]; Zhang, Sonic
>Cc: Mike Frysinger; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-commits] [9020] 
>trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/atomic.S: Bug[#6044] Forgot 
>CSYNC in get_core_lock_noflush
>
>On Thu 29 Jul 2010 11:29, Mike Frysinger pondered:
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:35, Zhang, Sonic 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:[email protected]]
>> >>On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:53,  
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> Modified: trunk/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/atomic.S (9019 => 9020) 
>> >>> @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
>> >>>      SSYNC(r2);
>> >>>      jump .Lretry_corelock_noflush
>> >>>  .Ldone_corelock_noflush:
>> >>> +    nop;
>> >>> +    CSYNC(r2);
>> >>
>> >>why the NOP ?  the CSYNC() macro already takes care of padding 
>> >>things correctly.
>> >
>> > I also think NOP is no necessary. But, the SMP kgdb single step 
>> > fails without this nop.
>> 
>> add an inline comment then noting this ?  otherwise someone might 
>> scrub it in the future without retesting.
>
>This seems fishy to me...
>
>The CSYNC already does:
>
>#define CSYNC(scratch) cli scratch; nop; nop; nop; CSYNC; sti scratch;
>
>Do things work if it is SSYNC? 

Do you mean replace CSYNC(r2) with SSYNC?


Sonic


>
>-Robin
>
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