3.16.7-ckt15 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
know.
------------------
From: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com>
commit d57f727264f1425a94689bafc7e99e502cb135b5 upstream.
When auditing cmpxchg call sites, Chuck noted that gcc was optimizing
away some of the desired LDs.
| do {
| new = old = *ipi_data_ptr;
| new |= 1U << msg;
| } while (cmpxchg(ipi_data_ptr, old, new) != old);
was generating to below
| 8015cef8: ld r2,[r4,0] <-- First LD
| 8015cefc: bset r1,r2,r1
|
| 8015cf00: llock r3,[r4] <-- atomic op
| 8015cf04: brne r3,r2,8015cf10
| 8015cf08: scond r1,[r4]
| 8015cf0c: bnz 8015cf00
|
| 8015cf10: brne r3,r2,8015cf00 <-- Branch doesn't go to orig LD
Although this was fixed by adding a ACCESS_ONCE in this call site, it
seems safer (for now at least) to add compiler barrier to LLSC based
cmpxchg
Reported-by: Chuck Jordan <cjordan@synopsys,com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 03cd6894855d..90de5c528da2 100644
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long expected,
unsigned long new)
" scond %3, [%1] \n"
" bnz 1b \n"
"2: \n"
- : "=&r"(prev)
- : "r"(ptr), "ir"(expected),
- "r"(new) /* can't be "ir". scond can't take limm for "b" */
- : "cc");
+ : "=&r"(prev) /* Early clobber, to prevent reg reuse */
+ : "r"(ptr), /* Not "m": llock only supports reg direct addr mode */
+ "ir"(expected),
+ "r"(new) /* can't be "ir". scond can't take LIMM for "b" */
+ : "cc", "memory"); /* so that gcc knows memory is being written here */
return prev;
}
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