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authorStefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>2017-03-14 13:59:28 -0700
committerMax Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>2017-03-15 18:35:51 +0100
commit39ac0033f2345ce7b5d8ca4439192407dacb2355 (patch)
tree51dc588baa63d31bc406388885f62c1cae068fa3 /arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
parent13f2767f31803754aa883f298737aff866f04628 (diff)
parentd9e0350d2575a20ee7783427da9bd6b6107eb983 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.1.39' into toradex_vf_4.1-nexttoradex_vf_4.1
Linux 4.1.39
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
index cee128732435..d155a9bbfab6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -231,4 +231,14 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
#define arch_read_relax(lock) cpu_relax()
#define arch_write_relax(lock) cpu_relax()
+/*
+ * Accesses appearing in program order before a spin_lock() operation
+ * can be reordered with accesses inside the critical section, by virtue
+ * of arch_spin_lock being constructed using acquire semantics.
+ *
+ * In cases where this is problematic (e.g. try_to_wake_up), an
+ * smp_mb__before_spinlock() can restore the required ordering.
+ */
+#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_mb()
+
#endif /* __ASM_SPINLOCK_H */