linux/arch
Christian Borntraeger 1afc82aee4 s390/barrier: avoid serialization in [smp_]rmb and [smp_]wmb
The principles of operation says:

The storage-operand fetch references of one instruction
occur after those of all preceding instructions and
before those of subsequent instructions, as observed
by other CPUs and by channel programs.
[...]
The CPU may fetch the operands of instructions before the
instructions are executed.
[...]
The CPU may delay placing results in storage.
[...]
the results of one instruction are placed in storage after
the results of all preceding instructions have been placed
in storage and before any results of the succeeding
instructions are stored, as observed by other CPUs and by
the channel subsystem.

which boils down to:
- reads are in order
- writes are in order
- reads can happen earlier
- writes can happen later

By definition (see memory-barrier.txt) read barriers orders
reads vs reads and write barriers orders writes agains writes.
but neither of these orders reads vs. writes.

That means we can implement smp_wmb,smp_rmb,wmb and rmb as
simple compiler barriers. To avoid reviewing all driver code
for correct barrier usage we keep dma_[rw]mb as serialization
for now.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2015-10-14 14:32:01 +02:00
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alpha word-at-a-time.h: support zero_bytemask() on alpha and tile 2015-10-06 14:53:16 -04:00
arc Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
arm Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v4.3 2015-10-06 14:31:53 +02:00
arm64 arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_break_hook 2015-10-06 19:10:28 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
c6x Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
cris Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
frv Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
h8300 word-at-a-time.h: fix some Kbuild files 2015-10-06 14:52:48 -04:00
hexagon Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
ia64 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
m32r Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
m68k m68k/defconfig: Update defconfigs for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-28 10:01:09 +02:00
metag Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
microblaze Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
mips MIPS: Define ioremap_uc 2015-10-06 13:19:25 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
nios2 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
openrisc dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
parisc parisc: Use platform_device_register_simple("rtc-generic") 2015-09-08 17:53:48 +02:00
powerpc arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian 2015-10-08 11:44:12 -04:00
s390 s390/barrier: avoid serialization in [smp_]rmb and [smp_]wmb 2015-10-14 14:32:01 +02:00
score Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
sh genirq: Remove irq argument from irq flow handlers 2015-09-16 15:47:51 +02:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-10-13 10:18:54 -07:00
tile word-at-a-time.h: support zero_bytemask() on alpha and tile 2015-10-06 14:53:16 -04:00
um Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
x86 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-10-13 10:18:54 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
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Kconfig kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00