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[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait()

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2014-08-07 05:36:24
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

Similar to the previous commit which described why we need to add a
barrier to arch_spin_is_locked(), we have a similar problem with
spin_unlock_wait().

We need a barrier on entry to ensure any spinlock we have previously
taken is visibly locked prior to the load of lock->slock.

It's also not clear if spin_unlock_wait() is intended to have ACQUIRE
semantics. For now be conservative and add a barrier on exit to give it
ACQUIRE semantics.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c
index 0c9c8d7d0734..170a0346f756 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c
@@ -70,12 +70,16 @@ void __rw_yield(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
 
 void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
+	smp_mb();
+
 	while (lock->slock) {
 		HMT_low();
 		if (SHARED_PROCESSOR)
 			__spin_yield(lock);
 	}
 	HMT_medium();
+
+	smp_mb();
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_spin_unlock_wait);
-- 
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