On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 06:40:58PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Add barrier wmb() to separate the AUX data store and aux_head store.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <redacted>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
index 6320d2cfd9d3..4a015d160bc5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ static void bts_update(struct bts_ctx *bts)
} else {
local_set(&buf->data_size, head);
}
+
+ /* The WMB separates data store and aux_head store matches. */
+ wmb();
Alexander, last time you mentioned (on IRC) that BTS is supposed to be
coherent, in which case we can probably get away with just a compiler
barrier. Can you confirm?
That said; this BTS crud is so horrifically slow, an extra MFENCE isn't
going to matter one way or another.
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