----- On Sep 19, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Will Deacon [email protected] wrote: [...] >> >> The current wording from membarrier(2) is: >> >> The "expedited" commands complete faster than the >> non-expedited >> ones; they never block, but have the downside of causing >> extra >> overhead. >> >> We could simply remove the "; they never block" part then ? > > I think so, yes. That or, "; they do not voluntarily block" or something > like that. Maybe look at other man pages for inspiration ;)
OK, let's tackle the man-pages part after the fix reaches mainline though. [...] > > I reckon you'll be fine using GFP_KERNEL and returning -ENOMEM on allocation > failure. This shouldn't happen in practice and it removes the fallback > path. Works for me! I'll prepare an updated patchset. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com
