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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-05-24 13:17:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-06-14 11:55:14 +0200
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treebcf918587b2425d1294b780b31ab67761e068e26 /include/linux/compiler.h
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locking/barriers: Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()
Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is. Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC semaphore code and the qspinlock code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 2bcaedc0f032..59a7004fc7dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -305,6 +305,17 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
})
/**
+ * smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() - Provide ACQUIRE ordering after a control dependency
+ *
+ * A control dependency provides a LOAD->STORE order, the additional RMB
+ * provides LOAD->LOAD order, together they provide LOAD->{LOAD,STORE} order,
+ * aka. (load)-ACQUIRE.
+ *
+ * Architectures that do not do load speculation can have this be barrier().
+ */
+#define smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() smp_rmb()
+
+/**
* smp_cond_load_acquire() - (Spin) wait for cond with ACQUIRE ordering
* @ptr: pointer to the variable to wait on
* @cond: boolean expression to wait for
@@ -314,10 +325,6 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
*
* Due to C lacking lambda expressions we load the value of *ptr into a
* pre-named variable @VAL to be used in @cond.
- *
- * The control dependency provides a LOAD->STORE order, the additional RMB
- * provides LOAD->LOAD order, together they provide LOAD->{LOAD,STORE} order,
- * aka. ACQUIRE.
*/
#ifndef smp_cond_load_acquire
#define smp_cond_load_acquire(ptr, cond_expr) ({ \
@@ -329,7 +336,7 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
break; \
cpu_relax(); \
} \
- smp_rmb(); /* ctrl + rmb := acquire */ \
+ smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(); \
VAL; \
})
#endif
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