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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-22 14:54:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-22 14:54:22 -0700
commit1bf7067c6e173dc10411704db48338ed69c05565 (patch)
tree06d731d9647c525fa598d03d7ec957ff9772ff40 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
parentfc934d40178ad4e551a17e2733241d9f29fddd70 (diff)
parent68722101ec3a0e179408a13708dd020e04f54aab (diff)
Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - 'qspinlock' support, enabled on x86: queued spinlocks - these are now the spinlock variant used by x86 as they outperform ticket spinlocks in every category. (Waiman Long) - 'pvqspinlock' support on x86: paravirtualized variant of queued spinlocks. (Waiman Long, Peter Zijlstra) - 'qrwlock' support, enabled on x86: queued rwlocks. Similar to queued spinlocks, they are now the variant used by x86: CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y - various lockdep fixlets - various locking primitives cleanups, further WRITE_ONCE() propagation" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) locking/lockdep: Remove hard coded array size dependency locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING lockdep: Do not break user-visible string locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb() locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb() rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context arch: Remove __ARCH_HAVE_CMPXCHG locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb() locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for Xen locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 360841da3744..13feb697271f 100644
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@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ CPU from reordering them.
There are some more advanced barrier functions:
- (*) set_mb(var, value)
+ (*) smp_store_mb(var, value)
This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
@@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@ after it has altered the task state:
CPU 1
===============================
set_current_state();
- set_mb();
+ smp_store_mb();
STORE current->state
<general barrier>
LOAD event_indicated
@@ -2026,7 +2026,7 @@ between the STORE to indicate the event and the STORE to set TASK_RUNNING:
CPU 1 CPU 2
=============================== ===============================
set_current_state(); STORE event_indicated
- set_mb(); wake_up();
+ smp_store_mb(); wake_up();
STORE current->state <write barrier>
<general barrier> STORE current->state
LOAD event_indicated