[RFC][PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Remove SYNC from _switch

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Thu Jun 8 23:47:29 AEST 2017


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.


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