Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Getting rid of smp_mb__before_spinlock

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:15:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> There was a thread on this somewhere about a year ago, I finally remembered to
> finish this :-)
> 
> This series removes two smp_mb__before_spinlock() (ab)users and converts the
> scheduler to use smp_mb__after_spinlock(), which provides more guarantees with
> the same amount of barriers.

For the arm64 bits:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Will