From: Heechul Yun <heechul@illinois.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:26:54 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ARM: 6998/2: kernel: use proper memory barriers for bitops
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4cde7e0dca98e0e93dceb174d83f766d0d637c23;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

ARM: 6998/2: kernel: use proper memory barriers for bitops

Improve scalability by avoiding costly and unnecessary L2 cache sync
in handling bitops.

Signed-off-by: Heechul Yun <hyun@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h
index b4892a06442c..f4280593dfa3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 
-#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit()	mb()
-#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit()	mb()
+#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit()	smp_mb()
+#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit()	smp_mb()
 
 /*
  * These functions are the basis of our bit ops.