linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 099/200] ARM: 7955/1: spinlock: ensure we have a compiler barrier before sev

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Message-ID: <lsq.1396221815.424665253@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:23:35 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"Will Deacon" <will.deacon@....com>,
	"Russell King" <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 099/200] ARM: 7955/1: spinlock: ensure we have a
 compiler barrier before sev

3.2.56-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

commit 7c8746a9eb287642deaad0e7c2cdf482dce5e4be upstream.

When unlocking a spinlock, we require the following, strictly ordered
sequence of events:

	<barrier>	/* dmb */
	<unlock>
	<barrier>	/* dsb */
	<sev>

Whilst the code does indeed reflect this in terms of the architecture,
the final <barrier> + <sev> have been contracted into a single inline
asm without a "memory" clobber, therefore the compiler is at liberty to
reorder the unlock to the end of the above sequence. In such a case,
a waiting CPU may be woken up before the lock has been unlocked, leading
to extremely poor performance.

This patch reworks the dsb_sev() function to make use of the dsb()
macro and ensure ordering against the unlock.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: 'ishst' variant is not used here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h | 15 +++------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -44,18 +44,9 @@
 
 static inline void dsb_sev(void)
 {
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
-	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"dsb\n"
-		SEV
-	);
-#else
-	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c10, 4\n"
-		SEV
-		: : "r" (0)
-	);
-#endif
+
+	dsb();
+	__asm__(SEV);
 }
 
 /*

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