[PATCH 1/2 v2] [POWERPC] Add PPC4xx L2-cache support (440GX)

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:59:15 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 08:39 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > +
> > > +     local_irq_save(flags);
> > > +     asm volatile ("sync" ::: "memory");
> > 
> > Perhaps just call iosync() for these instead of the open coded asm
> > volatile stuff?
> 
> Not sure about that. iosync() will do a sync but it's not meant at being
> used for things unrelated to IOs (and who knows... we might make it do
> something else one day ?).
> 
> In low level arch code like that, an open coded sync might be proper
> especially if it matches some documented sequence.

Either way, it doesn't matter to me.

josh