In ejtag_debug_handler() we must reload the address of ejtag_debug_buffer_spinlock if an sc fails, since the address in k0 will have been clobbered by the result of the sc instruction. In the case where we simply load a non-zero value (ie. there's contention for the lock) the address will not be clobbered & we can simply branch back to repeat the load from memory without reloading the address into k0.
The primary motivation for this change is that it moves the target of the bnez instruction to an instruction within the LL/SC loop (the LL itself), which we know contains no other memory accesses & therefore isn't affected by Loongson3 LL/SC errata. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@mips.com> --- Changes in v2: None arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/genex.S b/arch/mips/kernel/genex.S index ac4f2b835165..60ede6b75a3b 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/genex.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/genex.S @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ NESTED(ejtag_debug_handler, PT_SIZE, sp) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP 1: PTR_LA k0, ejtag_debug_buffer_spinlock __SYNC(full, loongson3_war) - ll k0, 0(k0) - bnez k0, 1b +2: ll k0, 0(k0) + bnez k0, 2b PTR_LA k0, ejtag_debug_buffer_spinlock sc k0, 0(k0) beqz k0, 1b -- 2.23.0