On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:59:35PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > On Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:20:02 PST (-0800), parri.and...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:39:12PM -0800, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > >> RISC-V: Remove smb_mb__{before,after}_spinlock() > > > >I wonder whether you really meant to remove smp_mb__after_spinlock(): > >on the one hand, this primitive doesn't seem "obsolete" (as suggested > >by the commit message); on the other hand, the Draft Specification at > > > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151218405830993&w=2 > > > >suggests that you need "to strengthen" the generic implementation for > >this primitive (considered the current spinlock.h in riscv). What am > >I missing? > > The comment was incorrect, which caused me to incorrectly remove the fence > from our port. I just sent out a patch (well, actually, I did last night -- > I just found this email sitting in a buffer...). > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/6/1136
Thank you for the clarification (and for the patch), Andrea > > Thanks for catching this!