linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 10/12] RISC-V: Use WRITE

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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:37:03 -0700
From:   Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
To:     palmer@...ive.com, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        hch@...radead.org, anup@...infault.org
Cc:     mark.rutland@....com, atish.patra@....com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Damien.LeMoal@....com,
        marc.zyngier@....com, jeremy.linton@....com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jason@...edaemon.net,
        catalin.marinas@....com, dmitriy@...-tech.org,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, schwab@...ux-m68k.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 10/12] RISC-V: Use WRITE_ONCE instead of direct access

The secondary harts spin on couple of per cpu variables until both of
these are non-zero so it's not necessary to have any ordering here.
However, WRITE_ONCE should be used to avoid tearing.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
index 17e74831..1e478615 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
 	 * the spinning harts that they can continue the boot process.
 	 */
 	smp_mb();
-	__cpu_up_stack_pointer[cpu] = task_stack_page(tidle) + THREAD_SIZE;
-	__cpu_up_task_pointer[cpu] = tidle;
+	WRITE_ONCE(__cpu_up_stack_pointer[cpu],
+		  task_stack_page(tidle) + THREAD_SIZE);
+	WRITE_ONCE(__cpu_up_task_pointer[cpu], tidle);
 
 	while (!cpu_online(cpu))
 		cpu_relax();
-- 
2.7.4