[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b6ea0cd24d0a327d255e33156ede46ce126ccd8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:24:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in
 CONFIG_PREEMPT

commit f862eefec0b68e099a9fa58d3761ffb10bad97e1 upstream.

It turns out the kernel relies on barrier() to force a reload of the
percpu offset value.  Since we can't easily modify the definition of
barrier() to include "tp" as an output register, we instead provide a
definition of __my_cpu_offset as extended assembly that includes a fake
stack read to hazard against barrier(), forcing gcc to know that it
must reread "tp" and recompute anything based on "tp" after a barrier.

This fixes observed hangs in the slub allocator when we are looping
on a percpu cmpxchg_double.

A similar fix for ARMv7 was made in June in change 509eb76ebf97.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h
index 63294f5..4f7ae39 100644
--- a/arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -15,9 +15,37 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_TILE_PERCPU_H
 #define _ASM_TILE_PERCPU_H

-register unsigned long __my_cpu_offset __asm__("tp");
-#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset
-#define set_my_cpu_offset(tp) (__my_cpu_offset = (tp))
+register unsigned long my_cpu_offset_reg asm("tp");
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+/*
+ * For full preemption, we can't just use the register variable
+ * directly, since we need barrier() to hazard against it, causing the
+ * compiler to reload anything computed from a previous "tp" value.
+ * But we also don't want to use volatile asm, since we'd like the
+ * compiler to be able to cache the value across multiple percpu reads.
+ * So we use a fake stack read as a hazard against barrier().
+ * The 'U' constraint is like 'm' but disallows postincrement.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long __my_cpu_offset(void)
+{
+	unsigned long tp;
+	register unsigned long *sp asm("sp");
+	asm("move %0, tp" : "=r" (tp) : "U" (*sp));
+	return tp;
+}
+#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset()
+#else
+/*
+ * We don't need to hazard against barrier() since "tp" doesn't ever
+ * change with PREEMPT_NONE, and with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY it only
+ * changes at function call points, at which we are already re-reading
+ * the value of "tp" due to "my_cpu_offset_reg" being a global variable.
+ */
+#define __my_cpu_offset my_cpu_offset_reg
+#endif
+
+#define set_my_cpu_offset(tp) (my_cpu_offset_reg = (tp))

 #include <asm-generic/percpu.h>

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