linux-kernel - [PATCH memory-model 2/3] arm64: Remove smp_mb() from arch_spin_is

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Message-Id: <1526338889-7003-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 16:01:28 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...nel.org
Cc:     stern@...land.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@...il.com,
        will.deacon@....com, peterz@...radead.org, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, j.alglave@....ac.uk,
        luc.maranget@...ia.fr, akiyks@...il.com,
        Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH memory-model 2/3] arm64: Remove smp_mb() from arch_spin_is_locked()

From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>

Commit 38b850a73034f ("arm64: spinlock: order spin_{is_locked,unlock_wait}
against local locks") added an smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked(), in order
"to ensure that the lock value is always loaded after any other locks have
been taken by the current CPU", and reported one example (the "insane case"
in ipc/sem.c) relying on such guarantee.

It is however understood that spin_is_locked() is not required to provide
such an ordering guarantee (a guarantee that is currently not provided by
all the implementations/archs), and that callers relying on such ordering
should instead insert suitable memory barriers before acting on the result
of spin_is_locked().

Following a recent auditing [1] of the callers of {,raw_}spin_is_locked(),
revealing that none of them are relying on the ordering guarantee anymore,
this commit removes the leading smp_mb() from the primitive thus reverting
38b850a73034f.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151981440005264&w=2
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152042843808540&w=2
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152043346110262&w=2

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
index ebdae15d665d..26c5bd7d88d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -122,11 +122,6 @@ static inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
 
 static inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Ensure prior spin_lock operations to other locks have completed
-	 * on this CPU before we test whether "lock" is locked.
-	 */
-	smp_mb(); /* ^^^ */
 	return !arch_spin_value_unlocked(READ_ONCE(*lock));
 }
 
-- 
2.5.2