From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932497AbcFIRvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:51:07 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:57431 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbcFIRvF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:51:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 19:50:54 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Michael Ellerman Cc: Boqun Feng , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , "Paul E. McKenney" , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: spinlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() Message-ID: <20160609175054.GY30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1465213340.2658.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160606115655.GD30909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1465215445.2658.4.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160606144659.GG30909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1465384845.13854.7.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160608123507.GR30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1465393760.10567.4.camel@ellerman.id.au> <20160608135903.GT30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1465475008.16363.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1465475008.16363.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:23:28PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Unfortunately the patch isn't 100%. So what I'll do; since my patch is trying to ensure all implementations of spin_unlock_wait() provide ACQUIRE semantics, and this patch does indeed do so, is skip touching PPC entirely and hope this patch lands before 4.8.