linux-kernel - [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:09:32 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc upstream.

The optimistic spin code assumes regular stores and cmpxchg() play nice;
this is found to not be true for at least: parisc, sparc32, tile32,
metag-lock1, arc-!llsc and hexagon.

There is further wreckage, but this in particular seemed easy to
trigger, so blacklist this.

Opt in for known good archs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606175316.GV13930@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig     | 1 +
 arch/arm64/Kconfig   | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig     | 1 +
 kernel/Kconfig.locks | 5 ++++-
 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index e47fcd1e9645..99e1ce978cf9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config ARM
 	select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
 	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
 	select ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT if MMU
 	select CLONE_BACKWARDS
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index c04454876bcb..fe70eaea0e28 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 config ARM64
 	def_bool y
 	select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
 	select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index d5d026b6d237..2e0ddfadc0b9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ config PPC
 	select OLD_SIGSUSPEND
 	select OLD_SIGACTION if PPC32
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 
 config EARLY_PRINTK
 	bool
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index 4e5683877b93..d60f34dbae89 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config SPARC64
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 
 config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
 	string
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index eb2dfa61eabe..9dc1a24d41b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ config X86
 	select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION
 	select RTC_LIB
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 
 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
 	def_bool y
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.locks b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
index d2b32ac27a39..ecee67a00f5f 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ config INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
 
 endif
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
+	bool
+
 config MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
 	def_bool y
-	depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
+	depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES && ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
-- 
2.0.1

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