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SubjectRe: FW: Commit 81a43adae3b9 (locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics) causing failures on arm64 (ThunderX)
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:29:34PM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:44 AM, David Danny wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are getting soft lockup OOPs on Cavium CN88XX (A.K.A. ThunderX), which is an arm64 implementation.
>
> I get a slightly different OOPs and reverting
> c55a6ffa6285e29f874ed403979472631ec70bff I was able to boot.
> What I saw with osq_lock.c was that osq_wait_next is called for both
> lock and unlock case so it might need both barriers.
> The other question comes does atomic_cmpxchg_release have release
> semantics when the compare fails? Right now it does not.
>

Out cmpxchg primites imply no barrier on failure, this is documented
somewhere.. /me searches..

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commit ed2de9f74ecbbf3063d29b2334e7b455d7f35189
Author: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Thu Jul 16 16:10:06 2015 +0100

locking/Documentation: Clarify failed cmpxchg() memory ordering semantics

A failed cmpxchg does not provide any memory ordering guarantees, a
property that is used to optimise the cmpxchg implementations on Alpha,
PowerPC and arm64.

This patch updates atomic_ops.txt and memory-barriers.txt to reflect
this.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150716151006.GH26390@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
index dab6da3382d9..b19fc34efdb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
@@ -266,7 +266,9 @@ with the given old and new values. Like all atomic_xxx operations,
atomic_cmpxchg will only satisfy its atomicity semantics as long as all
other accesses of *v are performed through atomic_xxx operations.

-atomic_cmpxchg must provide explicit memory barriers around the operation.
+atomic_cmpxchg must provide explicit memory barriers around the operation,
+although if the comparison fails then no memory ordering guarantees are
+required.

The semantics for atomic_cmpxchg are the same as those defined for 'cas'
below.
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 13feb697271f..18fc860df1be 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -2383,9 +2383,7 @@ about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional general memory barrier
explicit lock operations, described later). These include:

xchg();
- cmpxchg();
atomic_xchg(); atomic_long_xchg();
- atomic_cmpxchg(); atomic_long_cmpxchg();
atomic_inc_return(); atomic_long_inc_return();
atomic_dec_return(); atomic_long_dec_return();
atomic_add_return(); atomic_long_add_return();
@@ -2398,7 +2396,9 @@ about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional general memory barrier
test_and_clear_bit();
test_and_change_bit();

- /* when succeeds (returns 1) */
+ /* when succeeds */
+ cmpxchg();
+ atomic_cmpxchg(); atomic_long_cmpxchg();
atomic_add_unless(); atomic_long_add_unless();

These are used for such things as implementing ACQUIRE-class and RELEASE-class

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