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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Remove SYNC from _switch
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:18:13PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> I guess I see your point... okay, will constrain the comment to powerpc
> context switch and primitives code. Any fundamental change to such
> scheduler barriers I guess would require at least a glance over arch
> switch code :)

Just so.

> My plan is to send the powerpc sync removal patch for hopefully 4.13
> merge. I'm pretty sure it will be equally happy with your patches.
> Unless you can see any problems with it? More eyes would be welcome.

Feel free to Cc me. I don't see a problem with removing that SYNC now,
I'll rebase my patches on top.