[PATCH 3.8 08/81] ARM: 7955/1: spinlock: ensure we have a compiler barrier before sev

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.20 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

commit 7c8746a9eb287642deaad0e7c2cdf482dce5e4be upstream.

When unlocking a spinlock, we require the following, strictly ordered
sequence of events:

	<barrier>	/* dmb */
	<unlock>
	<barrier>	/* dsb */
	<sev>

Whilst the code does indeed reflect this in terms of the architecture,
the final <barrier> + <sev> have been contracted into a single inline
asm without a "memory" clobber, therefore the compiler is at liberty to
reorder the unlock to the end of the above sequence. In such a case,
a waiting CPU may be woken up before the lock has been unlocked, leading
to extremely poor performance.

This patch reworks the dsb_sev() function to make use of the dsb()
macro and ensure ordering against the unlock.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h | 15 +++------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
index b4ca707..d429475 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -44,18 +44,9 @@
 
 static inline void dsb_sev(void)
 {
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
-	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"dsb\n"
-		SEV
-	);
-#else
-	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-		"mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c10, 4\n"
-		SEV
-		: : "r" (0)
-	);
-#endif
+
+	dsb(ishst);
+	__asm__(SEV);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.8.3.2

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