ARCv2: barriers
authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:12:37 +0000 (21:42 +0530)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:30:17 +0000 (06:00 +0530)
ARCv2 based HS38 cores are weakly ordered and thus explicit barriers for
kernel proper.

SMP barrier is provided by DMB instruction which also guarantees local
barrier hence used as backend of smp_*mb() as well as *mb() APIs

Also hookup barriers into MMIO accessors to avoid ordering issues in IO

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild
arch/arc/include/asm/barrier.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arc/include/asm/io.h

Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge