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From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH powerpc/next 1/2] powerpc: Make value-returning atomics fully ordered
Date: Mon,  2 Nov 2015 09:30:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446427832-8742-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> (raw)

According to memory-barriers.txt:

> Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns
> information about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional
> general memory barrier (smp_mb()) on each side of the actual
> operation ...

Which mean these operations should be fully ordered. However on PPC,
PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER is the barrier before the actual operation,
which is currently "lwsync" if SMP=y. The leading "lwsync" can not
guarantee fully ordered atomics, according to Paul Mckenney:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/14/970

To fix this, we define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER as "sync" to guarantee
the fully-ordered semantics.

This also makes futex atomics fully ordered, which can avoid possible
memory ordering problems if userspace code relies on futex system call
for fully ordered semantics.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
---
These two are separated and splited from the patchset of powerpc atomic
variants implementation, whose link is:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/141

Based on next branch of powerpc tree, tested by 0day.

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h
index e682a71..c508686 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static inline void isync(void)
 	MAKE_LWSYNC_SECTION_ENTRY(97, __lwsync_fixup);
 #define PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER	 "\n" stringify_in_c(__PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER)
 #define PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER	 stringify_in_c(LWSYNC) "\n"
-#define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(LWSYNC) "\n"
+#define PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER "\n" stringify_in_c(sync) "\n"
 #define PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER	 "\n" stringify_in_c(sync) "\n"
 #else
 #define PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER
-- 
2.6.2

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-02  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-02  1:30 Boqun Feng [this message]
2015-11-02  1:30 ` [PATCH powerpc/next 2/2] powerpc: Make {cmp}xchg* and their atomic_ versions fully ordered Boqun Feng
2015-11-02  2:28   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-02  9:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-15 11:27   ` [powerpc/next, " Michael Ellerman
2015-11-02  2:26 ` [PATCH powerpc/next 1/2] powerpc: Make value-returning atomics " Paul E. McKenney
2015-11-02  9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-15 11:27 ` [powerpc/next, " Michael Ellerman

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