[S390] etr: Add barrier() to etr_sync_cpu_start().
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:55:15 +0000 (10:55 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:55:15 +0000 (10:55 +0100)
Force reading of *in_sync in while loop. Loops where the content that
is checked for is changed by a different cpu always should have some
sort of barrier() semantics.
Otherwise this might lead to very subtle bugs.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
arch/s390/kernel/time.c

index ee9fd7b859282941db4ad38ee896ea933cc1809e..e1ad464b6f207f073e5e096931ae554aa839a75e 100644 (file)
@@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ static void etr_adjust_time(unsigned long long clock, unsigned long long delay)
        }
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dummy)
 {
        int *in_sync = dummy;
@@ -758,8 +759,14 @@ static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dummy)
         * __udelay will stop the cpu on an enabled wait psw until the
         * TOD is running again.
         */
-       while (*in_sync == 0)
+       while (*in_sync == 0) {
                __udelay(1);
+               /*
+                * A different cpu changes *in_sync. Therefore use
+                * barrier() to force memory access.
+                */
+               barrier();
+       }
        if (*in_sync != 1)
                /* Didn't work. Clear per-cpu in sync bit again. */
                etr_disable_sync_clock(NULL);
@@ -773,6 +780,7 @@ static void etr_sync_cpu_start(void *dummy)
 static void etr_sync_cpu_end(void *dummy)
 {
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 /*
  * Sync the TOD clock using the port refered to by aibp. This port