From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Commit 38b850a73034f ("arm64: spinlock: order spin_{is_locked,unlock_wait}
against local locks") added an smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked(), in order
"to ensure that the lock value is always loaded after any other locks have
been taken by the current CPU", and reported one example (the "insane case"
in ipc/sem.c) relying on such guarantee.
It is however understood that spin_is_locked() is not required to provide
such an ordering guarantee (a guarantee that is currently not provided by
all the implementations/archs), and that callers relying on such ordering
should instead insert suitable memory barriers before acting on the result
of spin_is_locked().
Following a recent auditing [1] of the callers of {,raw_}spin_is_locked(),
revealing that none of them are relying on the ordering guarantee anymore,
this commit removes the leading smp_mb() from the primitive thus reverting
38b850a73034f.
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151981440005264&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152042843808540&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152043346110262&w=2
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
index ebdae15d665d..26c5bd7d88d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -122,11 +122,6 @@ static inline int arch_spin_value_unlocked(arch_spinlock_t lock)
static inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
{
- /*
- * Ensure prior spin_lock operations to other locks have completed
- * on this CPU before we test whether "lock" is locked.
- */
- smp_mb(); /* ^^^ */
return !arch_spin_value_unlocked(READ_ONCE(*lock));
}
--
2.5.2
