Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1187747 > unrolled thread

[PATCH 4.1 29/65] ARC: add compiler barrier to LLSC based cmpxchg

Back to article view | Back to linux.kernel

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  [PATCH 4.1 29/65] ARC: add compiler barrier to LLSC based cmpxchg Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-07-19 21:10 +0200

#1187747 — [PATCH 4.1 29/65] ARC: add compiler barrier to LLSC based cmpxchg

4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@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) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned l
 	"	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 */
 
 	smp_mb();
 


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | linux.kernel

csiph-web