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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] memory-barriers: remove smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:32:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150717093221.GB18994@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437087265.28088.53.camel@kernel.crashing.org>

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:54:25PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 08:11 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > So isync in lock in architecturally incorrect, despite being what
> > the
> > > architecture recommends using, yay !
> > 
> > Well, the architecture isn't expecting that crazies like myself would
> > want to have an unlock-lock provide ordering to some CPU not holding
> > the lock.  :-/
> 
> Yes, isync in lock effectively allows any load or store before the lock
> to leak into the lock and get re-ordered with things in there.
> 
> lwsync leaves us exposed to the re-order inside the LL/SC of a
> subsequent load.
> 
> So to get the full barrier semantic, the only option is a full sync,
> either in lock or unlock. Instinctively I prefer in lock but there's
> an argument to have it in unlock so we can get rid of the iosync
> business.

Yeah, removing the iosync logic kills mmiowb() as well (totally untested
diff below and I was too scared to touch that paca thing!). It also sticks
the full barrier in one place, since there's no try_unlock to worry about.

Will

--->8

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
index a8d2ef30d473..bb34f3bb66dc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
@@ -105,12 +105,6 @@ extern bool isa_io_special;
  *
  */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-#define IO_SET_SYNC_FLAG()	do { local_paca->io_sync = 1; } while(0)
-#else
-#define IO_SET_SYNC_FLAG()
-#endif
-
 /* gcc 4.0 and older doesn't have 'Z' constraint */
 #if __GNUC__ < 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 0)
 #define DEF_MMIO_IN_X(name, size, insn)				\
@@ -127,7 +121,6 @@ static inline void name(volatile u##size __iomem *addr, u##size val)	\
 {									\
 	__asm__ __volatile__("sync;"#insn" %1,0,%2"			\
 		: "=m" (*addr) : "r" (val), "r" (addr) : "memory");	\
-	IO_SET_SYNC_FLAG();						\
 }
 #else /* newer gcc */
 #define DEF_MMIO_IN_X(name, size, insn)				\
@@ -144,7 +137,6 @@ static inline void name(volatile u##size __iomem *addr, u##size val)	\
 {									\
 	__asm__ __volatile__("sync;"#insn" %1,%y0"			\
 		: "=Z" (*addr) : "r" (val) : "memory");			\
-	IO_SET_SYNC_FLAG();						\
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -162,7 +154,6 @@ static inline void name(volatile u##size __iomem *addr, u##size val)	\
 {									\
 	__asm__ __volatile__("sync;"#insn"%U0%X0 %1,%0"			\
 		: "=m" (*addr) : "r" (val) : "memory");			\
-	IO_SET_SYNC_FLAG();						\
 }
 
 DEF_MMIO_IN_D(in_8,     8, lbz);
@@ -626,23 +617,7 @@ static inline void name at					\
 #define writel_relaxed(v, addr)	writel(v, addr)
 #define writeq_relaxed(v, addr)	writeq(v, addr)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
 #define mmiowb()
-#else
-/*
- * Enforce synchronisation of stores vs. spin_unlock
- * (this does it explicitly, though our implementation of spin_unlock
- * does it implicitely too)
- */
-static inline void mmiowb(void)
-{
-	unsigned long tmp;
-
-	__asm__ __volatile__("sync; li %0,0; stb %0,%1(13)"
-	: "=&r" (tmp) : "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, io_sync))
-	: "memory");
-}
-#endif /* !CONFIG_PPC32 */
 
 static inline void iosync(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 4dbe072eecbe..9da89ea4ff31 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
 #include <asm/synch.h>
 #include <asm/ppc-opcode.h>
 
-#define smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()	smp_mb()  /* Full ordering for lock. */
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 /* use 0x800000yy when locked, where yy == CPU number */
 #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
@@ -41,19 +39,6 @@
 #define LOCK_TOKEN	1
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
-#define CLEAR_IO_SYNC	(get_paca()->io_sync = 0)
-#define SYNC_IO		do {						\
-				if (unlikely(get_paca()->io_sync)) {	\
-					mb();				\
-					get_paca()->io_sync = 0;	\
-				}					\
-			} while (0)
-#else
-#define CLEAR_IO_SYNC
-#define SYNC_IO
-#endif
-
 static __always_inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
 {
 	return lock.slock == 0;
@@ -91,7 +76,6 @@ static inline unsigned long __arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 
 static inline int arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-	CLEAR_IO_SYNC;
 	return __arch_spin_trylock(lock) == 0;
 }
 
@@ -122,7 +106,6 @@ extern void __rw_yield(arch_rwlock_t *lock);
 
 static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-	CLEAR_IO_SYNC;
 	while (1) {
 		if (likely(__arch_spin_trylock(lock) == 0))
 			break;
@@ -140,7 +123,6 @@ void arch_spin_lock_flags(arch_spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	unsigned long flags_dis;
 
-	CLEAR_IO_SYNC;
 	while (1) {
 		if (likely(__arch_spin_trylock(lock) == 0))
 			break;
@@ -158,9 +140,7 @@ void arch_spin_lock_flags(arch_spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long flags)
 
 static inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-	SYNC_IO;
-	__asm__ __volatile__("# arch_spin_unlock\n\t"
-				PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER: : :"memory");
+	smp_mb();
 	lock->slock = 0;
 }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-17  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-13 12:15 [RFC PATCH v2] memory-barriers: remove smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() Will Deacon
2015-07-13 13:09 ` Peter Hurley
2015-07-13 14:24   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 15:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 13:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 14:09   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 14:21     ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 15:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 17:50         ` Will Deacon
2015-07-13 20:20           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-13 22:23             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 23:04               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-14 10:04                 ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 12:45                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-14 12:51                     ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 14:00                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-14 14:12                         ` Will Deacon
2015-07-14 19:31                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-15  1:38                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-15 10:51                               ` Will Deacon
2015-07-15 13:12                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-24 11:31                                   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-24 15:30                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-12 13:44                                       ` Will Deacon
2015-08-12 15:43                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-12 17:59                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-13 10:49                                             ` Will Deacon
2015-08-13 13:10                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-17  4:06                                           ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-17  6:15                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-17  8:57                                               ` Will Deacon
2015-08-18  1:50                                                 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-18  8:37                                                   ` Will Deacon
2015-08-20  9:45                                                     ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-20 15:56                                                       ` Will Deacon
2015-08-26  0:27                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-08-26  4:06                                                           ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-13 18:23         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-13 19:41           ` Peter Hurley
2015-07-13 20:16             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-13 22:15               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 22:43                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-14  8:34                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-13 22:53                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-13 22:37         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-13 22:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-14 10:16   ` Will Deacon
2015-07-15  3:06   ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-15 10:44     ` Will Deacon
2015-07-16  2:00       ` Michael Ellerman
2015-07-16  5:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-16  5:14           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-16 15:11             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-16 22:54               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-17  9:32                 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2015-07-17 10:15                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-17 12:40                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-17 22:14                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-20 13:39                     ` Will Deacon
2015-07-20 13:48                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-20 13:56                         ` Will Deacon
2015-07-20 21:18                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-07-22 16:49                         ` Will Deacon
2015-07-22 16:49                           ` Will Deacon
2015-07-22 16:49                           ` Will Deacon
2015-09-01  2:57             ` Paul Mackerras
2015-07-15 14:18     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-16  1:34       ` Michael Ellerman

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