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    i386: Fix a couple busy loops in mach_wakecpu.h:wait_for_init_deassert() · 62be9001
    Satyam Sharma authored
    Use cpu_relax() in the busy loops, as atomic_read() doesn't automatically
    imply volatility for i386 and x86_64. x86_64 doesn't have this issue because
    it open-codes the while loop in smpboot.c:smp_callin() itself that already
    uses cpu_relax().
    
    For i386, however, smpboot.c:smp_callin() calls wait_for_init_deassert()
    which is buggy for mach-default and mach-es7000 cases.
    
    [ I test-built a kernel -- smp_callin() itself got inlined in its only
      callsite, smpboot.c:start_secondary() -- and the relevant piece of
      code disassembles to the following:
    
    0xc1019704 <start_secondary+12>:        mov    0xc144c4c8,%eax
    0xc1019709 <start_secondary+17>:        test   %eax,%eax
    0xc101970b <start_secondary+19>:        je     0xc1019709 <start_secondary+17>
    
      init_deasserted (at 0xc144c4c8) gets fetched into %eax only once and
      then we loop over the test of the stale value in the register only,
      so these look like real bugs to me. With the fix below, this becomes:
    
    0xc1019706 <start_secondary+14>:        pause
    0xc1019708 <start_secondary+16>:        cmpl   $0x0,0xc144c4c8
    0xc101970f <start_secondary+23>:        je     0xc1019706 <start_secondary+14>
    
      which looks nice and healthy. ]
    
    Thanks to Heiko Carstens for noticing this.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
    Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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