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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h index 47bd4ea0837d..d7a1a427a690 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h @@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ * * The nop instructions allow us to insert one or more instructions to flush the * L1-D cache when returning to userspace or a guest. + * + * powerpc relies on return from interrupt/syscall being context synchronising + * (which hrfid, rfid, and rfscv are) to support ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE + * without additional synchronisation instructions. + * + * soft-masked interrupt replay does not include a context-synchronising rfid, + * but those always return to kernel, the sync is only required when returning + * to user. */ #define RFI_FLUSH_SLOT \ RFI_FLUSH_FIXUP_SECTION; \ |