This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
locking-mutex-disable-optimistic-spinning-on-some-architectures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:53:16 +0200
Subject: locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc upstream.
The optimistic spin code assumes regular stores and cmpxchg() play nice;
this is found to not be true for at least: parisc, sparc32, tile32,
metag-lock1, arc-!llsc and hexagon.
There is further wreckage, but this in particular seemed easy to
trigger, so blacklist this.
Opt in for known good archs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606175316.GV13930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
kernel/Kconfig.locks | 5 ++++-
6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config ARM
select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
select ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT if MMU
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
config ARM64
def_bool y
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ config PPC
select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
select OLD_SIGSUSPEND
select OLD_SIGACTION if PPC32
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ config SPARC64
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
select NO_BOOTMEM
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
string
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ config X86
select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32
select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION if IA32_EMULATION
select RTC_LIB
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
def_bool y
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ config INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE
endif
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
+ bool
+
config MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
def_bool y
- depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
+ depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES && ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/locking-mutex-disable-optimistic-spinning-on-some-architectures.patch
queue-3.10/perf-x86-intel-ignore-condchgd-bit-to-avoid-false-nmi-handling.patch
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