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SYNC in __switch_to() is a historic relic and not needed at all. - In UP context it is obviously useless, why would we want to stall the core for all updates to stack memory of t0 to complete before loading kernel mode callee registers from t1 stack's memory. - In SMP, there could be potential race in which outgoing task could be concurrently picked for running on a different core, thus writes to stack here need to be visible before the reads from stack on other core. Peter confirmed that generic schedular already has needed barriers (by way of rq lock) so there is no need for additional arch barrier. This came up when Noam was trying to replace this SYNC with EZChip specific hardware thread scheduling instruction for their platform support. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151102092654.GM17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> |
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