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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	oleg@redhat.com, sbw@mit.edu,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 8/8] powerpc: Full barrier for smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:59:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1386799151-2219-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386799151-2219-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The powerpc lock acquisition sequence is as follows:

	lwarx; cmpwi; bne; stwcx.; lwsync;

Lock release is as follows:

	lwsync; stw;

If CPU 0 does a store (say, x=1) then a lock release, and CPU 1 does a
lock acquisition then a load (say, r1=y), then there is no guarantee of
a full memory barrier between the store to 'x' and the load from 'y'.
To see this, suppose that CPUs 0 and 1 are hardware threads in the same
core that share a store buffer, and that CPU 2 is in some other core,
and that CPU 2 does the following:

	y = 1; sync; r2 = x;

If 'x' and 'y' are both initially zero, then the lock acquisition and
release sequences above can result in r1 and r2 both being equal to
zero, which could not happen if unlock+lock was a full barrier.

This commit therefore makes powerpc's smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() be a
full barrier.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 5f54a744dcc5..f6e78d63fb6a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include <asm/synch.h>
 #include <asm/ppc-opcode.h>
 
+#define smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()	smp_mb()  /* Full ordering for lock. */
+
 #define arch_spin_is_locked(x)		((x)->slock != 0)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-- 
1.8.1.5


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11 21:58 [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking] Memory-barrier documentation updates + smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 1/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 2/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add long atomic examples " Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:39     ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-12 13:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-12 15:08       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-13 14:18         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-16 10:39     ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 4/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Document ACCESS_ONCE() Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40     ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 5/8] locking: Add an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for UNLOCK+LOCK barrier Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40     ` [tip:core/locking] locking: Add an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for UNLOCK+BLOCK barrier tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 6/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Downgrade UNLOCK+LOCK Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40     ` [tip:core/locking] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Downgrade UNLOCK+BLOCK tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 7/8] rcu: Apply smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to preserve grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40     ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-12-16 10:40     ` [tip:core/locking] powerpc: Full barrier for smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:39   ` [tip:core/locking] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney

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