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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: allow building for ARM
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:26:57PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> The correct solution is to invoke a kernel-exported CPU-specific helper
> function in the ARM kernel helper page.
>
> I see a __kuser_memory_barrier entry there which maps to smp_dmb.

That is indeed the correct way to do this - otherwise user programs will
be tied to particular architecture versions, and either an undefined
instruction fault will happen, or worse, the desired effect will not
happen.


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