From: Oliver Kurth <okurth@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:23:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Memory barriers
X-Git-Tag: stable-10.2.0~265
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3bf1f137b45232e7e9b2474127ba2d3e1411162;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Memory barriers

Unrelated to open-vm-tools.

Previously added new barriers for arm64 and x86_common, but
forgot to handle arm32. This change does that, and fixes a
mangled comment.
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diff --git a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_basic_asm_x86_common.h b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_basic_asm_x86_common.h
index 9b97fba75..cc278d8ff 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_basic_asm_x86_common.h
+++ b/open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_basic_asm_x86_common.h
@@ -349,10 +349,11 @@ RDTSC_BARRIER(void)
  * 2) Not fine-grained enough to provide the best performance.
  * For the above two reasons, usage of COMPILER_*_BARRIER is now deprecated.
  * _Do not add new references to COMPILER_*_BARRIER._ Instead, precisely
- * document the intent of your code by using the
- * <mem_type/purpose>_<before_access_type>_BARRIER_<after_access_type>
- * references to COMPILER_*_BARRIER are being slowly but surely converted,
- * and when no references are left, COMPILER_*_BARRIER will be retired.
+ * document the intent of your code by using
+ * <mem_type/purpose>_<before_access_type>_BARRIER_<after_access_type>.
+ * Existing references to COMPILER_*_BARRIER are being slowly but surely
+ * converted, and when no references are left, COMPILER_*_BARRIER will be
+ * retired.
  *
  * Thanks for pasting this whole comment into every architecture header.
  */