The most expensive ordering for hwsync to provide is the store-load
barrier, because all prior stores have to be drained to the caches
before subsequent instructions can complete.
stsync just orders stores which means it can just be a barrer that
goes down the store queue and orders draining, and does not prevent
completion of subsequent instructions. So it should be faster than
hwsync.
Use stsync for wmb(). Older processors that don't recognise the SC
field should treat this as hwsync.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
index f0ff5737b0d8..95e637c1a3b6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
*/
#define __mb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
#define __rmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
-#define __wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
+#define __wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (PPC_STSYNC : : : "memory")
/* The sub-arch has lwsync */
#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC)
--
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