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SubjectRe: [PATCH] locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 10:16:04AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 9:03 AM Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
> >
> > These operations are documented as always ordered in
> > include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h, and producer-consumer
> > type use cases where one side needs to ensure a flag is left pending
> > after some shared data was updated rely on this ordering, even in the
> > failure case.
> >
> > This is the case with the workqueue code, which currently suffers from a
> > reproducible ordering violation on Apple M1 platforms (which are
> > notoriously out-of-order) that ends up causing the TTY layer to fail to
> > deliver data to userspace properly under the right conditions. This
> > change fixes that bug.
> >
> > Change the documentation to restrict the "no order on failure" story to
> > the _lock() variant (for which it makes sense), and remove the
> > early-exit from the generic implementation, which is what causes the
> > missing barrier semantics in that case. Without this, the remaining
> > atomic op is fully ordered (including on ARM64 LSE, as of recent
> > versions of the architecture spec).
> >
> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: e986a0d6cb36 ("locking/atomics, asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h: Rewrite using atomic_*() APIs")
> > Fixes: 61e02392d3c7 ("locking/atomic/bitops: Document and clarify ordering semantics for failed test_and_{}_bit()")
> > Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> > ---
> > Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt | 2 +-
> > include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h | 6 ------
>
> I double-checked all the architecture specific implementations to ensure
> that the asm-generic one is the only one that needs the fix.

I couldn't figure out parisc -- do you know what ordering their spinlocks
provide? They have a comment talking about a release, but I don't know what
the ordering guarantees of an "ldcw" are.

Will

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