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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2013-06-05 11:20:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2013-06-05 23:35:56 +0100 |
| commit | 509eb76ebf9771abc9fe51859382df2571f11447 (patch) | |
| tree | a5745368df4dbe458dc4de5fa63778e9b8cda2cc /arch | |
| parent | ced2a3b84965f1be8b6a142d6029faf241f109af (diff) | |
ARM: 7747/1: pcpu: ensure __my_cpu_offset cannot be re-ordered across barrier()
__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.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h index 968c0a14e0a3..209e6504922e 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h @@ -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() |