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ARM: 7747/1: pcpu: ensure __my_cpu_offset cannot be re-ordered across barrier()

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commit 509eb76ebf upstream.

__my_cpu_offset is non-volatile, since we want its value to be cached
when we access several per-cpu variables in a row with preemption
disabled. This means that we rely on preempt_{en,dis}able to hazard
with the operation via the barrier() macro, so that we can't end up
migrating CPUs without reloading the per-cpu offset.

Unfortunately, GCC doesn't treat a "memory" clobber on a non-volatile
asm block as a side-effect, and will happily re-order it before other
memory clobbers (including those in prempt_disable()) and cache the
value. This has been observed to break the cmpxchg logic in the slub
allocator, leading to livelock in kmem_cache_alloc in mainline kernels.

This patch adds a dummy memory input operand to __my_cpu_offset,
forcing it to be ordered with respect to the barrier() macro.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Will Deacon 2013-06-05 11:20:33 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 9704849d29
commit 4722ea98c1
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -30,8 +30,15 @@ static inline void set_my_cpu_offset(unsigned long off)
static inline unsigned long __my_cpu_offset(void)
{
unsigned long off;
/* Read TPIDRPRW */
asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c13, c0, 4" : "=r" (off) : : "memory");
register unsigned long *sp asm ("sp");
/*
* Read TPIDRPRW.
* We want to allow caching the value, so avoid using volatile and
* instead use a fake stack read to hazard against barrier().
*/
asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c13, c0, 4" : "=r" (off) : "Q" (*sp));
return off;
}
#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset()