* [PATCH v2 for-4.17 2/3] powerpc: Remove smp_mb() from arch_spin_is_locked()
@ 2018-03-28 9:47 Andrea Parri
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From: Andrea Parri @ 2018-03-28 9:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Paul Mackerras, Michael Ellerman,
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar
Cc: Linus Torvalds, linux-kernel, Andrea Parri
Commit 51d7d5205d338 ("powerpc: Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked()")
added an smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked(), in order to ensure that
Thread 0 Thread 1
spin_lock(A); spin_lock(B);
r0 = spin_is_locked(B) r1 = spin_is_locked(A);
never ends up with r0 = r1 = 0, and reported one example (in ipc/sem.c)
relying on such guarantee.
It's however understood (and undocumented) that spin_is_locked() is not
required to ensure such ordering guarantee, guarantee that is currently
_not_ provided by all implementations/arch, and that callers relying on
such ordering should instead use suitable memory barriers before acting
on the result of spin_is_locked().
Following a recent auditing[1] of the callers of {,raw_}spin_is_locked()
revealing that none of them are relying on this guarantee anymore, this
commit removes the leading smp_mb() from the primitive thus effectively
reverting 51d7d5205d338.
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151981440005264&w=2
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index b9ebc3085fb79..ecc141e3f1a73 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ static __always_inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
static inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
{
- smp_mb();
return !arch_spin_value_unlocked(*lock);
}
--
2.7.4
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