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2016-01-29locking/x86: Tweak the comment about use of wmb() for IOMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
On x86, we *do* still use the non-NOP rmb()/wmb() for IO barriers, but even that is generally questionable. Leave them around as historial unless somebody can point to a case where they care about the performance, but tweak the comment so people don't think they are strictly required in all cases. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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: virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-4-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-29locking/x86: Drop a comment left over from X86_OOSTOREMichael S. Tsirkin1-4/+0
The comment about wmb being non-NOP to deal with non-Intel CPUs is a left over from before the following commit: 09df7c4c8097 ("x86: Remove CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE") It makes no sense now: in particular, wmb() is not a NOP even for regular Intel CPUs because of weird use-cases e.g. dealing with WC memory. Drop this comment. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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: virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-3-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-29locking/x86: Add cc clobber for ADDLMichael S. Tsirkin1-3/+6
ADDL clobbers flags (such as CF) but barrier.h didn't tell this to GCC. Historically, GCC doesn't need one on x86, and always considers flags clobbered. We are probably missing the cc clobber in a *lot* of places for this reason. But even if not necessary, it's probably a good thing to add for documentation, and in case GCC semantcs ever change. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 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: virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-12x86: define __smp_xxxMichael S. Tsirkin1-19/+12
This defines __smp_xxx barriers for x86, for use by virtualization. smp_xxx barriers are removed as they are defined correctly by asm-generic/barriers.h Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-01-12x86: reuse asm-generic/barrier.hMichael S. Tsirkin1-3/+2
As on most architectures, on x86 read_barrier_depends and smp_read_barrier_depends are empty. Drop the local definitions and pull the generic ones from asm-generic/barrier.h instead: they are identical. This is in preparation to refactoring this code area. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-08-03Merge branch 'x86/asm' into locking/coreIngo Molnar1-11/+0
Upcoming changes to static keys is interacting/conflicting with the following pending TSC commits in tip:x86/asm: 4ea1636b04db x86/asm/tsc: Rename native_read_tsc() to rdtsc() ... So merge it into the locking tree to have a smoother resolution. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03locking, arch: use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() in smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire()Andrey Konovalov1-4/+4
Replace ACCESS_ONCE() macro in smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on x86, arm, arm64, ia64, metag, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc and asm-generic since ACCESS_ONCE() does not work reliably on non-scalar types. WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() were introduced in the following commits: 230fa253df63 ("kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE") 43239cbe79fc ("kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)") Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438528264-714-1-git-send-email-andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-06x86/asm/tsc: Remove rdtsc_barrier()Andy Lutomirski1-11/+0
All callers have been converted to rdtsc_ordered(). Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9baa4ae9a1e7c7c282f9cb2f15bb6bf5c2004032.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()Peter Zijlstra1-2/+2
Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release(). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> 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>
2015-05-19locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb()Peter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Since we assume set_mb() to result in a single store followed by a full memory barrier, employ WRITE_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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>
2015-02-23x86/asm: Use alternative_2() in rdtsc_barrier()Borislav Petkov1-4/+2
... now that we have it. Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2014-12-11arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb()Alexander Duyck1-4/+7
There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be. For example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed is an lsync or eieio instruction. This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers rmb() and wmb(). In most cases this should result in the barrier being the same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb(). For example on ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows: Barrier Call Explanation --------- -------- ---------------------------------- rmb() dsb() Data synchronization barrier - system dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb(). Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent memories. The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the CPU and a device. It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb(). Most architectures don't provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without resorting to the same mechanism used in mb(). As such there isn't much to be gained in trying to define such a function. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-11arch: Cleanup read_barrier_depends() and commentsAlexander Duyck1-56/+3
This patch is meant to cleanup the handling of read_barrier_depends and smp_read_barrier_depends. In multiple spots in the kernel headers read_barrier_depends is defined as "do {} while (0)", however we then go into the SMP vs non-SMP sections and have the SMP version reference read_barrier_depends, and the non-SMP define it as yet another empty do/while. With this commit I went through and cleaned out the duplicate definitions and reduced the number of definitions down to 2 per header. In addition I moved the 50 line comments for the macro from the x86 and mips headers that defined it as an empty do/while to those that were actually defining the macro, alpha and blackfin. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-18x86, locking: Use no more OOSTORE nonsensePeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Paul reported that X86_OOSTORE is dead, yay! Update a comment and remove a newly added reference. Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611090509.GC3588@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-18arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()Peter Zijlstra1-0/+4
x86 is strongly ordered and all its atomic ops imply a full barrier. Implement the two new primitives as the old ones were. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-knswsr5mldkr0w1lrdxvc81w@git.kernel.org Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11x86: Remove CONFIG_X86_OOSTOREDave Jones1-6/+2
This was an optimization that made memcpy type benchmarks a little faster on ancient (Circa 1998) IDT Winchip CPUs. In real-life workloads, it wasn't even noticable, and I doubt anyone is running benchmarks on 16 year old silicon any more. Given this code has likely seen very little use over the last decade, let's just remove it. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-12arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release()Peter Zijlstra1-1/+42
A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(), even though there is no need to order prior stores against later loads. Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way to make use of them. This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release() to remedy this situation. The new smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release() primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or writes. These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional expense on most architectures. In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial improvements in readability. It therefore seems likely that replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits. It appears that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code might be so replaced. [Changelog by PaulMck] Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-28Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86David Howells1-0/+116
Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> cc: x86@kernel.org