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* [S390] etr: Add barrier() to etr_sync_cpu_start().
@ 2007-02-21 10:01 Martin Schwidefsky
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From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2007-02-21 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-s390; +Cc: heiko.carstens

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

[S390] etr: Add barrier() to etr_sync_cpu_start().

Force reading of *in_sync in while loop. Loops where the content that
is checked for is changed by a different cpu always should have some
sort of barrier() semantics.
Otherwise this might lead to very subtle bugs.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/kernel/time.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/time.c linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/kernel/time.c
--- linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/time.c	2007-02-21 10:47:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-patched/arch/s390/kernel/time.c	2007-02-21 10:47:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ static void etr_adjust_time(unsigned lon
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dummy)
 {
 	int *in_sync = dummy;
@@ -758,8 +759,14 @@ static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dum
 	 * __udelay will stop the cpu on an enabled wait psw until the
 	 * TOD is running again.
 	 */
-	while (*in_sync == 0)
+	while (*in_sync == 0) {
 		__udelay(1);
+		/*
+		 * A different cpu changes *in_sync. Therefore use
+		 * barrier() to force memory access.
+		 */
+		barrier();
+	}
 	if (*in_sync != 1)
 		/* Didn't work. Clear per-cpu in sync bit again. */
 		etr_disable_sync_clock(NULL);
@@ -773,6 +780,7 @@ static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dum
 static void etr_sync_cpu_end(void *dummy)
 {
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 /*
  * Sync the TOD clock using the port refered to by aibp. This port
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