19 Mar
2015
19 Mar
'15
7:01 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:48:10 +0000 Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org wrote: \
The barrier was not intended to have anything to do with put_cpu() either though since the barrier was added before put_cpu() arrived: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5...
There's nothing in the commit comment explaining the barrier and I really can't see what it is for.
Looks like it wasn't needed then either.
-- Steve