4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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commit 548095dea63ffc016d39c35b32c628d033638aca upstream.
Queued spinlocks are not used by DEC Alpha, and furthermore operations such as READ_ONCE() and release/relaxed RMW atomics are being changed to imply smp_read_barrier_depends(). This commit therefore removes the now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath(), and adjusts the comments accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index a72f5df643f8..8710fbe8d26c 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock) * @tail : The new queue tail code word * Return: The previous queue tail code word * - * xchg(lock, tail) + * xchg(lock, tail), which heads an address dependency * * p,*,* -> n,*,* ; prev = xchg(lock, node) */ @@ -533,13 +533,11 @@ queue: if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) { prev = decode_tail(old); /* - * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates, - * through decode_tail(), a pointer. - * - * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() - * such that the access to @prev must happen after. + * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which + * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer. The address + * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that + * the subsequent access to @prev happens after. */ - smp_read_barrier_depends();
WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);