arm64: percpu: rewrite ll/sc loops in assembly
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:44:48 +0000 (17:44 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 07:01:35 +0000 (03:01 -0400)
commitb31070890d2a5ecd9523d123a2ea94c0ee18d310
treebfec95d83dab04800328ffdaef21248257867467
parent8dc22842bd73eab7701c02b5857e8b25afd349dc
arm64: percpu: rewrite ll/sc loops in assembly

commit 1e6e57d9b34a9075d5f9e2048ea7b09756590d11 upstream.

Writing the outer loop of an LL/SC sequence using do {...} while
constructs potentially allows the compiler to hoist memory accesses
between the STXR and the branch back to the LDXR. On CPUs that do not
guarantee forward progress of LL/SC loops when faced with memory
accesses to the same ERG (up to 2k) between the failed STXR and the
branch back, we may end up livelocking.

This patch avoids this issue in our percpu atomics by rewriting the
outer loop as part of the LL/SC inline assembly block.

Fixes: f97fc810798c ("arm64: percpu: Implement this_cpu operations")
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/percpu.h