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| author | Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> | 2015-11-02 02:30:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-12-14 10:38:18 +0100 |
| commit | 49e9cf3f0c04bf76ffa59242254110309554861d (patch) | |
| tree | a8dad7893126a02ebb18c88ea0d374502cf68beb | |
| parent | powerpc/mm: Don't open code pgtable_t size (diff) | |
| download | linux-49e9cf3f0c04bf76ffa59242254110309554861d.tar.xz linux-49e9cf3f0c04bf76ffa59242254110309554861d.zip | |
powerpc: Make value-returning atomics fully ordered
According to memory-barriers.txt:
> Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns
> information about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional
> general memory barrier (smp_mb()) on each side of the actual
> operation ...
Which mean these operations should be fully ordered. However on PPC,
PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER is the barrier before the actual operation,
which is currently "lwsync" if SMP=y. The leading "lwsync" can not
guarantee fully ordered atomics, according to Paul Mckenney:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/14/970
To fix this, we define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER as "sync" to guarantee
the fully-ordered semantics.
This also makes futex atomics fully ordered, which can avoid possible
memory ordering problems if userspace code relies on futex system call
for fully ordered semantics.
Fixes: b97021f85517 ("powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h index e682a7143edb..c50868681f9e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static inline void isync(void) MAKE_LWSYNC_SECTION_ENTRY(97, __lwsync_fixup); #define PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(__PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER) #define PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER stringify_in_c(LWSYNC) "\n" -#define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(LWSYNC) "\n" +#define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(sync) "\n" #define PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(sync) "\n" #else #define PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER |