[PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc/32: Remove sync from _switch
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Mon May 15 14:45:40 AEST 2023
64-bit has removed the sync from _switch since commit 9145effd626d1
("powerpc/64: Drop explicit hwsync in context switch"). The same
logic there should apply to 32-bit. Remove the sync and replace with
a placeholder comment (32 and 64 will be merged with a later change).
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
index 47f0dd9a45ad..089432128571 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
@@ -243,13 +243,7 @@ _GLOBAL(_switch)
stw r10,_CCR(r1)
stw r1,KSP(r3) /* Set old stack pointer */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- /* We need a sync somewhere here to make sure that if the
- * previous task gets rescheduled on another CPU, it sees all
- * stores it has performed on this one.
- */
- sync
-#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+ /* The sync for SMP migration is taken care of, see entry_64.S */
tophys(r0,r4)
mtspr SPRN_SPRG_THREAD,r0 /* Update current THREAD phys addr */
--
2.40.1
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