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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/20] Remove Mysterious Macro Intended to Obscure Weird Behaviours (mmiowb())
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Love the acronym, and the series looks good to me.
>
> Michael - can you check (or maybe you already did?) that this works
> for ppc too, and doesn't have any gotcha's?

Yeah it looks fine to me.

I gave it a quick boot with a patch to count how many mb()s we actually
issue in the spin_unlock() path and it's definitely hitting that path
correctly. So it works at least as well as the old code.

cheers

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