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From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, akinobu.mita@gmail.com,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: [tip:locking/core] ia64: Fix up smp_mb__{before,after}_clear_bit( )
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:03:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-akevfh136um9dqvb1ohm55ca@git.kernel.org> (raw)

Commit-ID:  e4f9bfb3feaeaca55cf177dadb7e3313836b10f4
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e4f9bfb3feaeaca55cf177dadb7e3313836b10f4
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 20:36:01 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:40:29 +0200

ia64: Fix up smp_mb__{before,after}_clear_bit()

IA64 doesn't actually have acquire/release barriers, its a lie!

Add a comment explaining this and fix up the bitop barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-akevfh136um9dqvb1ohm55ca@git.kernel.org
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h       | 7 ++-----
 arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h
index c27eccd..feb8117 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h
@@ -65,11 +65,8 @@ __set_bit (int nr, volatile void *addr)
 	*((__u32 *) addr + (nr >> 5)) |= (1 << (nr & 31));
 }
 
-/*
- * clear_bit() has "acquire" semantics.
- */
-#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit()	smp_mb()
-#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit()	do { /* skip */; } while (0)
+#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit()	barrier();
+#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit()	barrier();
 
 /**
  * clear_bit - Clears a bit in memory
diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 4f37dbb..f35109b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ extern long ia64_cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void);
 #define cmpxchg_rel(ptr, o, n)	\
 	ia64_cmpxchg(rel, (ptr), (o), (n), sizeof(*(ptr)))
 
+/*
+ * Worse still - early processor implementations actually just ignored
+ * the acquire/release and did a full fence all the time.  Unfortunately
+ * this meant a lot of badly written code that used .acq when they really
+ * wanted .rel became legacy out in the wild - so when we made a cpu
+ * that strictly did the .acq or .rel ... all that code started breaking - so
+ * we had to back-pedal and keep the "legacy" behavior of a full fence :-(
+ */
+
 /* for compatibility with other platforms: */
 #define cmpxchg(ptr, o, n)	cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n))
 #define cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n)	cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n))

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