[PATCH 6/9] Use proper membar instructions on SPARC
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Wed Aug 12 22:51:19 PDT 2009
From: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:45:39 -0400
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
This breaks 32-bit sparc.
It will cause the binaries built to be tagged as needing v8plus or v9
instructions. They therefore won't execute or load on a 32-bit sparc
system.
That's why I encoded the membars using explicit instruction constants,
rather than using the usual mnemonics.
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