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    mips/atomic: Fix loongson_llsc_mb() wreckage · 1c6c1ca3
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    The comment describing the loongson_llsc_mb() reorder case doesn't
    make any sense what so ever. Instruction re-ordering is not an SMP
    artifact, but rather a CPU local phenomenon. Clarify the comment by
    explaining that these issue cause a coherence fail.
    
    For the branch speculation case; if futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
    needs one at the bne branch target, then surely the normal
    __cmpxch_asm() implementation does too. We cannot rely on the
    barriers from cmpxchg() because cmpxchg_local() is implemented with
    the same macro, and branch prediction and speculation are, too, CPU
    local.
    
    Fixes: e02e07e3 ("MIPS: Loongson: Introduce and use loongson_llsc_mb()")
    Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
    Cc: Huang Pei <huangpei@loongson.cn>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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