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Subject[PATCH 3.16 261/346] arm64: spinlocks: implement smp_mb__before_spinlock() as smp_mb()
3.16.39-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

commit 872c63fbf9e153146b07f0cece4da0d70b283eeb upstream.

smp_mb__before_spinlock() is intended to upgrade a spin_lock() operation
to a full barrier, such that prior stores are ordered with respect to
loads and stores occuring inside the critical section.

Unfortunately, the core code defines the barrier as smp_wmb(), which
is insufficient to provide the required ordering guarantees when used in
conjunction with our load-acquire-based spinlock implementation.

This patch overrides the arm64 definition of smp_mb__before_spinlock()
to map to a full smp_mb().

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -231,4 +231,14 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch
#define arch_read_relax(lock) cpu_relax()
#define arch_write_relax(lock) cpu_relax()

+/*
+ * Accesses appearing in program order before a spin_lock() operation
+ * can be reordered with accesses inside the critical section, by virtue
+ * of arch_spin_lock being constructed using acquire semantics.
+ *
+ * In cases where this is problematic (e.g. try_to_wake_up), an
+ * smp_mb__before_spinlock() can restore the required ordering.
+ */
+#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_mb()
+
#endif /* __ASM_SPINLOCK_H */
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