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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2006-01-13 15:37:17 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-01-13 21:18:50 +1100
commit144b9c135b963bcb7f242c7b83bff930620d3161 (patch)
tree4b454f3e5e5921c5a528131dfa51df542259d918 /include/asm-sparc/cache.h
parent3356bb9f7ba378a6e2709f9df95f4ea52111f4df (diff)
[PATCH] powerpc: use lwsync in atomics, bitops, lock functions
eieio is only a store - store ordering. When used to order an unlock operation loads may leak out of the critical region. This is potentially buggy, one example is if a user wants to atomically read a couple of values. We can solve this with an lwsync which orders everything except store - load. I removed the (now unused) EIEIO_ON_SMP macros and the c versions isync_on_smp and eieio_on_smp now we dont use them. I also removed some old comments that were used to identify inline spinlocks in assembly, they dont make sense now our locks are out of line. Another interesting thing was that read_unlock was using an eieio even though the rest of the spinlock code had already been converted to use lwsync. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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