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 b4892a06442cea0a6b80ed1a99e465d0126db2d0..f4280593dfa3a61b9675bfbb35fd2a2b61eb2ed2 100644 (file)
--- 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.