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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86 : revert replace LOCK_PREFIX in futex.h
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:45:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080815164509.GC21138@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808150854140.3324@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Depends on :

x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> Changing the 0x90 (single-byte nop) currently used into a 0x3E DS segment
> override prefix should fix this issue. Since the default of the atomic
> instructions is to use the DS segment anyway, it should not affect the
> behavior.

Ok, so I think this is an _excellent_ patch, but I'd like to also then use
LOCK_PREFIX in include/asm-x86/futex.h.

See commit 9d55b9923a1b7ea8193b8875c57ec940dc2ff027.

                Linus

Applies to 2.6.27-rc2 (and -rc3 unless hell broke loose in futex.h between rc2
and rc3).

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CC: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
CC: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
---
 include/asm-x86/futex.h |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-x86/futex.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-x86/futex.h	2008-08-15 12:32:38.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-x86/futex.h	2008-08-15 12:41:33.000000000 -0400
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 	asm volatile("1:\tmovl	%2, %0\n"			\
 		     "\tmovl\t%0, %3\n"				\
 		     "\t" insn "\n"				\
-		     "2:\tlock; cmpxchgl %3, %2\n"		\
+		     "2:\t" LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgl %3, %2\n"	\
 		     "\tjnz\t1b\n"				\
 		     "3:\t.section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"		\
 		     "4:\tmov\t%5, %1\n"			\
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_op_inuser
 		__futex_atomic_op1("xchgl %0, %2", ret, oldval, uaddr, oparg);
 		break;
 	case FUTEX_OP_ADD:
-		__futex_atomic_op1("lock; xaddl %0, %2", ret, oldval,
+		__futex_atomic_op1(LOCK_PREFIX "xaddl %0, %2", ret, oldval,
 				   uaddr, oparg);
 		break;
 	case FUTEX_OP_OR:
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static inline int futex_atomic_cmpxchg_i
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(int)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	asm volatile("1:\tlock; cmpxchgl %3, %1\n"
+	asm volatile("1:\t" LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgl %3, %1\n"
 		     "2:\t.section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
 		     "3:\tmov     %2, %0\n"
 		     "\tjmp     2b\n"

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F  BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-15 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-14 20:58 [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-14 21:20 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-14 21:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-15 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-15 16:45   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2008-08-15 16:56   ` [PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-08-15 17:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-15 20:27       ` H. Peter Anvin

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