linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC] smp_store_mb should use smp

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Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 09:22:18 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] smp_store_mb should use smp_mb

On some architectures smp_store_mb() calls mb() which is stronger
than implied by both the name and the documentation.

smp_store_mb is only used by core kernel code at the moment, so
we know no one mis-uses it for an MMIO barrier.
Make it call smp_mb consistently before some arch-specific
code uses it as such by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

---

Note: I'm guessing an ack from arch maintainers will be needed, but
I'm working on a bigger cleanup moving a bunch of duplicated code
into asm-generic/barrier.h which depends on this, so not Cc'ing
widely yet.

Please Ack if appropriate but do not merge yet.

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/barrier.h
index df896a1..425552b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ do {									\
 	___p1;								\
 })
 
-#define smp_store_mb(var, value)	do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); mb(); } while (0)
+#define smp_store_mb(var, value)	do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); smp_mb(); } while (0)
 
 /*
  * The group barrier in front of the rsm & ssm are necessary to ensure
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
index 0eca6ef..4f0169e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #define rmb()  __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
 #define wmb()  __asm__ __volatile__ ("sync" : : : "memory")
 
-#define smp_store_mb(var, value)	do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); mb(); } while (0)
+#define smp_store_mb(var, value)	do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); smp_mb(); } while (0)
 
 #ifdef __SUBARCH_HAS_LWSYNC
 #    define SMPWMB      LWSYNC
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
index d68e11e..6c1d8b5 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #define smp_mb__before_atomic()		smp_mb()
 #define smp_mb__after_atomic()		smp_mb()
 
-#define smp_store_mb(var, value)		do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); mb(); } while (0)
+#define smp_store_mb(var, value)		do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); smp_mb(); } while (0)
 
 #define smp_store_release(p, v)						\
 do {									\
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
index b42afad..0f45f93 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 #endif	/* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 #ifndef smp_store_mb
-#define smp_store_mb(var, value)  do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); mb(); } while (0)
+#define smp_store_mb(var, value)  do { WRITE_ONCE(var, value); smp_mb(); } while (0)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef smp_mb__before_atomic
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