[PATCH] arm64: spinlock: serialise spin_unlock_wait against concurrent lockers
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Nov 27 03:44:06 PST 2015
Boqun Feng reported a rather nasty ordering issue with spin_unlock_wait
on architectures implementing spin_lock with LL/SC sequences and acquire
semantics:
| CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
| ================== ==================== ==============
| spin_unlock(&lock);
| spin_lock(&lock):
| r1 = *lock; // r1 == 0;
| o = READ_ONCE(object); // reordered here
| object = NULL;
| smp_mb();
| spin_unlock_wait(&lock);
| *lock = 1;
| smp_mb();
| o->dead = true;
| if (o) // true
| BUG_ON(o->dead); // true!!
The crux of the problem is that spin_unlock_wait(&lock) can return on
CPU 1 whilst CPU 2 is in the process of taking the lock. This can be
resolved by upgrading spin_unlock_wait to a LOCK operation, forcing it
to serialise against a concurrent locker and giving it acquire semantics
in the process (although it is not at all clear whether this is needed -
different callers seem to assume different things about the barrier
semantics and architectures are similarly disjoint in their
implementations of the macro).
This patch implements spin_unlock_wait using an LL/SC sequence with
acquire semantics on arm64. For v8.1 systems with the LSE atomics, the
exclusive writeback is omitted, since the spin_lock operation is
indivisible and no intermediate state can be observed.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
index c85e96d174a5..fc9682bfe002 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -26,9 +26,28 @@
* The memory barriers are implicit with the load-acquire and store-release
* instructions.
*/
+static inline void arch_spin_unlock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
+{
+ unsigned int tmp;
+ arch_spinlock_t lockval;
-#define arch_spin_unlock_wait(lock) \
- do { while (arch_spin_is_locked(lock)) cpu_relax(); } while (0)
+ asm volatile(
+" sevl\n"
+"1: wfe\n"
+"2: ldaxr %w0, %2\n"
+" eor %w1, %w0, %w0, ror #16\n"
+" cbnz %w1, 1b\n"
+ ARM64_LSE_ATOMIC_INSN(
+ /* LL/SC */
+" stxr %w1, %w0, %2\n"
+" cbnz %w1, 2b\n", /* Serialise against any concurrent lockers */
+ /* LSE atomics */
+" nop\n"
+" nop\n")
+ : "=&r" (lockval), "=&r" (tmp), "+Q" (*lock)
+ :
+ : "memory");
+}
#define arch_spin_lock_flags(lock, flags) arch_spin_lock(lock)
--
2.1.4
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