parisc: Define mb() and add memory barriers to assembler unlock sequences
authorJohn David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:30:31 +0000 (13:30 -0400)
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Wed, 8 Aug 2018 20:13:32 +0000 (22:13 +0200)
commitfedb8da96355f5f64353625bf96dc69423ad1826
tree36c305623c2a88863801b2f6b5f407af392099eb
parent66509a276c8c1d19ee3f661a41b418d101c57d29
parisc: Define mb() and add memory barriers to assembler unlock sequences

For years I thought all parisc machines executed loads and stores in
order. However, Jeff Law recently indicated on gcc-patches that this is
not correct. There are various degrees of out-of-order execution all the
way back to the PA7xxx processor series (hit-under-miss). The PA8xxx
series has full out-of-order execution for both integer operations, and
loads and stores.

This is described in the following article:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040214092531/http://www.cpus.hp.com/technical_references/advperf.shtml

For this reason, we need to define mb() and to insert a memory barrier
before the store unlocking spinlocks. This ensures that all memory
accesses are complete prior to unlocking. The ldcw instruction performs
the same function on entry.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
arch/parisc/include/asm/barrier.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S
arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S
arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S