perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:55:29 +0000 (13:55 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:27:47 +0000 (12:27 -0800)
commit0fb024c4377701319ae29af1b23b647885d7c808
tree547d735b894f012fae9300beed0b83b7cf3af5a6
parent8430063608b2a95a75cdf3ddd3fbd7dac88c151f
perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering

commit bf378d341e4873ed928dc3c636252e6895a21f50 upstream.

The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old
comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and
add the missing barrier.

When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there
will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more
conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do.

Reported-by: Victor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Victor Kaplansky <victork@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c