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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: [rfc][patch 2/3] x86: fix IO write barriers
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:22:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004052258.GB15131@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004052153.GA15131@wotan.suse.de>


wmb() on x86 must always include a barrier, because stores can go out of
order in many cases when dealing with devices (eg. WC memory).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/system.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-i386/system.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/system.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_limit(un
 
 #define mb() alternative("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_XMM2)
 #define rmb() alternative("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "lfence", X86_FEATURE_XMM2)
+#define wmb() alternative("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "sfence", X86_FEATURE_XMM)
 
 /**
  * read_barrier_depends - Flush all pending reads that subsequents reads
@@ -271,18 +272,14 @@ static inline unsigned long get_limit(un
 
 #define read_barrier_depends()	do { } while(0)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE
-/* Actually there are no OOO store capable CPUs for now that do SSE, 
-   but make it already an possibility. */
-#define wmb() alternative("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)", "sfence", X86_FEATURE_XMM)
-#else
-#define wmb()	__asm__ __volatile__ ("": : :"memory")
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 #define smp_mb()	mb()
 #define smp_rmb()	rmb()
-#define smp_wmb()	wmb()
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE
+# define smp_wmb() 	wmb()
+#else
+# define smp_wmb()	barrier()
+#endif
 #define smp_read_barrier_depends()	read_barrier_depends()
 #define set_mb(var, value) do { (void) xchg(&var, value); } while (0)
 #else
Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-x86_64/system.h
@@ -159,12 +159,8 @@ static inline void write_cr8(unsigned lo
  */
 #define mb() 	asm volatile("mfence":::"memory")
 #define rmb()	asm volatile("lfence":::"memory")
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_UNORDERED_IO
 #define wmb()	asm volatile("sfence" ::: "memory")
-#else
-#define wmb()	asm volatile("" ::: "memory")
-#endif
+
 #define read_barrier_depends()	do {} while(0)
 #define set_mb(var, value) do { (void) xchg(&var, value); } while (0)
 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04  5:21 [rfc][patch 1/3] x86_64: fence nontemproal stores Nick Piggin
2007-10-04  5:22 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-10-04 17:32   ` [rfc][patch 2/3] x86: fix IO write barriers Dave Jones
2007-10-04 17:53     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 18:10       ` Dave Jones
2007-10-04 18:21         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 18:41           ` Dave Jones
2007-10-04 18:58             ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 19:08               ` Dave Jones
2007-10-04 20:52                 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-04  5:23 ` [rfc][patch 3/3] x86: optimise barriers Nick Piggin
2007-10-12  8:25   ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12  8:42     ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-12  9:12       ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12  9:44         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-12 10:04           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12 12:44         ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-12 13:29           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-15 10:17             ` Helge Hafting
2007-10-15 11:53               ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12  8:57     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-12  9:55       ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12 10:42         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-12 11:55           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12 12:10             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-12 15:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15  7:44       ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-15  8:09         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15  9:10           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-15  9:24             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-16  0:50             ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16  9:00               ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-16  9:14                 ` david
2007-10-16 12:49                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-10-15 14:38         ` David Schwartz

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