Patch "arch,hexagon: Convert smp_mb__*()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

arch,hexagon: Convert smp_mb__*()

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
arch-hexagon-convert-smp_mb__.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:00:36 +0100
Subject: arch,hexagon: Convert smp_mb__*()

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

commit 94cf42f823bc904305b0ee93a09bcd51ba380497 upstream.

Hexagon uses asm-gemeric/barrier.h and its smp_mb() is barrier(). Therefore we can use the default implementation that uses smp_mb().

---
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/atomic.h |    6 +-----
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/bitops.h |    4 +---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
 
 #define ATOMIC_INIT(i)		{ (i) }
 #define atomic_set(v, i)	((v)->counter = (i))

@@ -163,9 +164,4 @@ static inline int __atomic_add_unless(at
 #define atomic_inc_return(v) (atomic_add_return(1, v))
 #define atomic_dec_return(v) (atomic_sub_return(1, v))
 
-#define smp_mb__before_atomic_dec()	barrier()
-#define smp_mb__after_atomic_dec()	barrier()
-#define smp_mb__before_atomic_inc()	barrier()
-#define smp_mb__after_atomic_inc()	barrier()
-
 #endif

@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit()	barrier()
-#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit()	barrier()
-
 /*
  * The offset calculations for these are based on BITS_PER_LONG == 32
  * (i.e. I get to shift by #5-2 (32 bits per long, 4 bytes per access),

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/x86-efi-fix-boot-crash-by-mapping-efi-memmap-entries-bottom-up-at-runtime-instead-of-top-down.patch queue-3.14/arch-hexagon-convert-smp_mb__.patch queue-3.14/x86-mm-set-nx-on-gap-between-__ex_table-and-rodata.patch queue-3.14/sched-core-fix-task_dead-race-in-finish_task_switch.patch queue-3.14/x86-platform-fix-geode-lx-timekeeping-in-the-generic-x86-build.patch