RISC-V: Use WRITE_ONCE instead of direct access
authorAtish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:15:03 +0000 (12:15 -0700)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:03:37 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
The secondary harts spin on couple of per cpu variables until both of
these are non-zero so it's not necessary to have any ordering here.
However, WRITE_ONCE should be used to avoid tearing.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c

index 17e7483..1e47861 100644 (file)
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
         * the spinning harts that they can continue the boot process.
         */
        smp_mb();
-       __cpu_up_stack_pointer[cpu] = task_stack_page(tidle) + THREAD_SIZE;
-       __cpu_up_task_pointer[cpu] = tidle;
+       WRITE_ONCE(__cpu_up_stack_pointer[cpu],
+                 task_stack_page(tidle) + THREAD_SIZE);
+       WRITE_ONCE(__cpu_up_task_pointer[cpu], tidle);
 
        while (!cpu_online(cpu))
                cpu_relax();