powerpc: Full barrier for smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
The powerpc lock acquisition sequence is as follows: lwarx; cmpwi; bne; stwcx.; lwsync; Lock release is as follows: lwsync; stw; If CPU 0 does a store (say, x=1) then a lock release, and CPU 1 does a lock acquisition then a load (say, r1=y), then there is no guarantee of a full memory barrier between the store to 'x' and the load from 'y'. To see this, suppose that CPUs 0 and 1 are hardware threads in the same core that share a store buffer, and that CPU 2 is in some other core, and that CPU 2 does the following: y = 1; sync; r2 = x; If 'x' and 'y' are both initially zero, then the lock acquisition and release sequences above can result in r1 and r2 both being equal to zero, which could not happen if unlock+lock was a full barrier. This commit therefore makes powerpc's smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() be a full barrier. Signed-off-by:Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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