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+#
+# Feature name: membarrier-sync-core
+# Kconfig: ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
+# description: arch supports core serializing membarrier
+#
+# Architecture requirements
+#
+# * arm64
+#
+# Rely on eret context synchronization when returning from IPI handler, and
+# when returning to user-space.
+#
+# * x86
+#
+# x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
+# However, it uses both IRET and SYSEXIT to go back to user-space. The IRET
+# instruction is core serializing, but not SYSEXIT.
+#
+# x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI.
+# However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat code),
+# SYSRETQ, or IRET.
+#
+# Given that neither SYSRET{L,Q}, nor SYSEXIT, are core serializing, we rely
+# instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core serialization
+# after changing the current mm, and deal with the special case of kthread ->
+# uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into active_mm) by issuing a
+# sync_core_before_usermode() in that specific case.
+#
+ -----------------------
+ | arch |status|
+ -----------------------
+ | alpha: | TODO |
+ | arc: | TODO |
+ | arm: | TODO |
+ | arm64: | ok |
+ | blackfin: | TODO |
+ | c6x: | TODO |
+ | cris: | TODO |
+ | frv: | TODO |
+ | h8300: | TODO |
+ | hexagon: | TODO |
+ | ia64: | TODO |
+ | m32r: | TODO |
+ | m68k: | TODO |
+ | metag: | TODO |
+ | microblaze: | TODO |
+ | mips: | TODO |
+ | mn10300: | TODO |
+ | nios2: | TODO |
+ | openrisc: | TODO |
+ | parisc: | TODO |
+ | powerpc: | TODO |
+ | s390: | TODO |
+ | score: | TODO |
+ | sh: | TODO |
+ | sparc: | TODO |
+ | tile: | TODO |
+ | um: | TODO |
+ | unicore32: | TODO |
+ | x86: | ok |
+ | xtensa: | TODO |
+ -----------------------