tree d8740bb7222926df4bae9f93a6564839b08dc6c3
parent bae0ca2bc550d1ec6a118fb8f2696f18c4da3d8e
author Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 1391796752 +0100
committer Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 1392032690 +0000

ARM: 7955/1: spinlock: ensure we have a compiler barrier before sev

When unlocking a spinlock, we require the following, strictly ordered
sequence of events:

	<barrier>	/* dmb */
	<unlock>
	<barrier>	/* dsb */
	<sev>

Whilst the code does indeed reflect this in terms of the architecture,
the final <barrier> + <sev> have been contracted into a single inline
asm without a "memory" clobber, therefore the compiler is at liberty to
reorder the unlock to the end of the above sequence. In such a case,
a waiting CPU may be woken up before the lock has been unlocked, leading
to extremely poor performance.

This patch reworks the dsb_sev() function to make use of the dsb()
macro and ensure ordering against the unlock.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>