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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-05-16 15:01:11 +0200
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2016-08-22 22:38:00 +0100
commit9df3747090869da0f231384791ef475994e38060 (patch)
tree0be9830943da3190a6e09cecfee230fc7effc37f /include/linux
parented8ab6b2bb3f3714dad70216b94e1bb8bc8df223 (diff)
sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations
commit 2e636d5e66c35dfcbaf617aa8fa963f6847478fe upstream. Vikram reported that his ARM64 compiler managed to 'optimize' away the preempt_count manipulations in code like: preempt_enable_no_resched(); put_user(); preempt_disable(); Irrespective of that fact that that is horrible code that should be fixed for many reasons, it does highlight a deficiency in the generic preempt_count manipulators. As it is never right to combine/elide preempt_count manipulations like this. Therefore sprinkle some volatile in the two generic accessors to ensure the compiler is aware of the fact that the preempt_count is observed outside of the regular program-order view and thus cannot be optimized away like this. x86; the only arch not using the generic code is not affected as we do all this in asm in order to use the segment base per-cpu stuff. Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> 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> Fixes: a787870924db ("sched, arch: Create asm/preempt.h") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516131751.GH3205@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of READ_ONCE()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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