From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 114/176] MIPS: cavium_octeon: Fix syncw generation.
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:42:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200303174318.020233777@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200303174304.593872177@linuxfoundation.org>
From: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
commit 97e914b7de3c943011779b979b8093fdc0d85722 upstream.
The Cavium Octeon CPU uses a special sync instruction for implementing
wmb, and due to a CPU bug, the instruction must appear twice. A macro
had been defined to hide this:
#define __SYNC_rpt(type) (1 + (type == __SYNC_wmb))
which was intended to evaluate to 2 for __SYNC_wmb, and 1 for any other
type of sync. However, this expression is evaluated by the assembler,
and not the compiler, and the result of '==' in the assembler is 0 or
-1, not 0 or 1 as it is in C. The net result was wmb() producing no code
at all. The simple fix in this patch is to change the '+' to '-'.
Fixes: bf92927251b3 ("MIPS: barrier: Add __SYNC() infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/sync.h
@@ -155,9 +155,11 @@
* effective barrier as noted by commit 6b07d38aaa52 ("MIPS: Octeon: Use
* optimized memory barrier primitives."). Here we specify that the affected
* sync instructions should be emitted twice.
+ * Note that this expression is evaluated by the assembler (not the compiler),
+ * and that the assembler evaluates '==' as 0 or -1, not 0 or 1.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
-# define __SYNC_rpt(type) (1 + (type == __SYNC_wmb))
+# define __SYNC_rpt(type) (1 - (type == __SYNC_wmb))
#else
# define __SYNC_rpt(type) 1
#endif
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2020-03-03 17:42 ` [PATCH 5.5 110/176] MIPS: VPE: Fix a double free and a memory leak in release_vpe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-04 21:28 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-03-04 22:14 ` Christophe JAILLET
2020-03-03 17:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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