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<title>parisc: define get_cycles macro for arch-override</title>
<updated>2022-06-25T09:45:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-23T19:11:41+00:00</published>
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commit 8865bbe6ba1120e67f72201b7003a16202cd42be upstream.

PA-RISC defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual
`#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic
code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the
get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping
patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing)
when defining random_get_entropy().

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8865bbe6ba1120e67f72201b7003a16202cd42be upstream.

PA-RISC defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual
`#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic
code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the
get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping
patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing)
when defining random_get_entropy().

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T08:23:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-16T06:35:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 90cc7bed1ed19f869ae7221a6b41887fe762a6a3 ]

Use absolute_pointer() wrapper for PAGE0 to avoid this compiler warning:

  arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c: In function 'start_parisc':
  error: '__builtin_memcmp_eq' specified bound 8 exceeds source size 0

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Co-Developed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 90cc7bed1ed19f869ae7221a6b41887fe762a6a3 ]

Use absolute_pointer() wrapper for PAGE0 to avoid this compiler warning:

  arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c: In function 'start_parisc':
  error: '__builtin_memcmp_eq' specified bound 8 exceeds source size 0

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Co-Developed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: avoid a warning on u8 cast for cmpxchg on u8 pointers</title>
<updated>2021-04-16T09:59:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gao Xiang</name>
<email>hsiangkao@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-06T04:59:29+00:00</published>
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commit 4d752e5af63753ab5140fc282929b98eaa4bd12e upstream.

commit b344d6a83d01 ("parisc: add support for cmpxchg on u8 pointers")
can generate a sparse warning ("cast truncates bits from constant
value"), which has been reported several times [1] [2] [3].

The original code worked as expected, but anyway, let silence such
sparse warning as what others did [4].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202104061220.nRMBwCXw-lkp@intel.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202012291914.T5Agcn99-lkp@intel.com
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202008210829.KVwn7Xeh%25lkp@intel.com
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315131512.133720-2-jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org
Cc: Liam Beguin &lt;liambeguin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4d752e5af63753ab5140fc282929b98eaa4bd12e upstream.

commit b344d6a83d01 ("parisc: add support for cmpxchg on u8 pointers")
can generate a sparse warning ("cast truncates bits from constant
value"), which has been reported several times [1] [2] [3].

The original code worked as expected, but anyway, let silence such
sparse warning as what others did [4].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202104061220.nRMBwCXw-lkp@intel.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202012291914.T5Agcn99-lkp@intel.com
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202008210829.KVwn7Xeh%25lkp@intel.com
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315131512.133720-2-jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org
Cc: Liam Beguin &lt;liambeguin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: add support for cmpxchg on u8 pointers</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T09:01:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam Beguin</name>
<email>liambeguin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-18T20:10:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b344d6a83d01c52fddbefa6b3b4764da5b1022a0 ]

The kernel test bot reported[1] that using set_mask_bits on a u8 causes
the following issue on parisc:

	hppa-linux-ld: drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.o: in function `tusb1210_probe':
	&gt;&gt; (.text+0x2f4): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'
	&gt;&gt; hppa-linux-ld: (.text+0x324): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'
	hppa-linux-ld: (.text+0x354): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'

Add support for cmpxchg on u8 pointers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1272617/#1468946

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin &lt;liambeguin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b344d6a83d01c52fddbefa6b3b4764da5b1022a0 ]

The kernel test bot reported[1] that using set_mask_bits on a u8 causes
the following issue on parisc:

	hppa-linux-ld: drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.o: in function `tusb1210_probe':
	&gt;&gt; (.text+0x2f4): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'
	&gt;&gt; hppa-linux-ld: (.text+0x324): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'
	hppa-linux-ld: (.text+0x354): undefined reference to `__cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer'

Add support for cmpxchg on u8 pointers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1272617/#1468946

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin &lt;liambeguin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add atomic64_set_release() define to avoid CPU soft lockups</title>
<updated>2020-07-31T14:44:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T11:36:59+00:00</published>
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commit be6577af0cef934ccb036445314072e8cb9217b9 upstream.

Stalls are quite frequent with recent kernels. I enabled
CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR and I caught the following stall:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [cc1:22803]
CPU: 0 PID: 22803 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 5.6.17+ #3
Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440
 IAOQ[0]: d_alloc_parallel+0x384/0x688
 IAOQ[1]: d_alloc_parallel+0x388/0x688
 RP(r2): d_alloc_parallel+0x134/0x688
Backtrace:
 [&lt;000000004036974c&gt;] __lookup_slow+0xa4/0x200
 [&lt;0000000040369fc8&gt;] walk_component+0x288/0x458
 [&lt;000000004036a9a0&gt;] path_lookupat+0x88/0x198
 [&lt;000000004036e748&gt;] filename_lookup+0xa0/0x168
 [&lt;000000004036e95c&gt;] user_path_at_empty+0x64/0x80
 [&lt;000000004035d93c&gt;] vfs_statx+0x104/0x158
 [&lt;000000004035dfcc&gt;] __do_sys_lstat64+0x44/0x80
 [&lt;000000004035e5a0&gt;] sys_lstat64+0x20/0x38
 [&lt;0000000040180054&gt;] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14

The code was stuck in this loop in d_alloc_parallel:

    4037d414:   0e 00 10 dc     ldd 0(r16),ret0
    4037d418:   c7 fc 5f ed     bb,&lt; ret0,1f,4037d414 &lt;d_alloc_parallel+0x384&gt;
    4037d41c:   08 00 02 40     nop

This is the inner loop of bit_spin_lock which is called by hlist_bl_unlock in
d_alloc_parallel:

static inline void bit_spin_lock(int bitnum, unsigned long *addr)
{
        /*
         * Assuming the lock is uncontended, this never enters
         * the body of the outer loop. If it is contended, then
         * within the inner loop a non-atomic test is used to
         * busywait with less bus contention for a good time to
         * attempt to acquire the lock bit.
         */
        preempt_disable();
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK)
        while (unlikely(test_and_set_bit_lock(bitnum, addr))) {
                preempt_enable();
                do {
                        cpu_relax();
                } while (test_bit(bitnum, addr));
                preempt_disable();
        }
#endif
        __acquire(bitlock);
}

After consideration, I realized that we must be losing bit unlocks.
Then, I noticed that we missed defining atomic64_set_release().
Adding this define fixes the stalls in bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit be6577af0cef934ccb036445314072e8cb9217b9 upstream.

Stalls are quite frequent with recent kernels. I enabled
CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR and I caught the following stall:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [cc1:22803]
CPU: 0 PID: 22803 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 5.6.17+ #3
Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440
 IAOQ[0]: d_alloc_parallel+0x384/0x688
 IAOQ[1]: d_alloc_parallel+0x388/0x688
 RP(r2): d_alloc_parallel+0x134/0x688
Backtrace:
 [&lt;000000004036974c&gt;] __lookup_slow+0xa4/0x200
 [&lt;0000000040369fc8&gt;] walk_component+0x288/0x458
 [&lt;000000004036a9a0&gt;] path_lookupat+0x88/0x198
 [&lt;000000004036e748&gt;] filename_lookup+0xa0/0x168
 [&lt;000000004036e95c&gt;] user_path_at_empty+0x64/0x80
 [&lt;000000004035d93c&gt;] vfs_statx+0x104/0x158
 [&lt;000000004035dfcc&gt;] __do_sys_lstat64+0x44/0x80
 [&lt;000000004035e5a0&gt;] sys_lstat64+0x20/0x38
 [&lt;0000000040180054&gt;] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14

The code was stuck in this loop in d_alloc_parallel:

    4037d414:   0e 00 10 dc     ldd 0(r16),ret0
    4037d418:   c7 fc 5f ed     bb,&lt; ret0,1f,4037d414 &lt;d_alloc_parallel+0x384&gt;
    4037d41c:   08 00 02 40     nop

This is the inner loop of bit_spin_lock which is called by hlist_bl_unlock in
d_alloc_parallel:

static inline void bit_spin_lock(int bitnum, unsigned long *addr)
{
        /*
         * Assuming the lock is uncontended, this never enters
         * the body of the outer loop. If it is contended, then
         * within the inner loop a non-atomic test is used to
         * busywait with less bus contention for a good time to
         * attempt to acquire the lock bit.
         */
        preempt_disable();
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK)
        while (unlikely(test_and_set_bit_lock(bitnum, addr))) {
                preempt_enable();
                do {
                        cpu_relax();
                } while (test_bit(bitnum, addr));
                preempt_disable();
        }
#endif
        __acquire(bitlock);
}

After consideration, I realized that we must be losing bit unlocks.
Then, I noticed that we missed defining atomic64_set_release().
Adding this define fixes the stalls in bit operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix compiler warnings in debug_core.c</title>
<updated>2020-01-12T10:24:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-20T20:00:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 75cf9797006a3a9f29a3a25c1febd6842a4a9eb2 ]

Fix this compiler warning:
kernel/debug/debug_core.c: In function ‘kgdb_cpu_enter’:
arch/parisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:48:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
   48 |  ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))))
arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:78:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘xchg’
   78 | #define atomic_xchg(v, new) (xchg(&amp;((v)-&gt;counter), new))
      |                              ^~~~
kernel/debug/debug_core.c:596:4: note: in expansion of macro ‘atomic_xchg’
  596 |    atomic_xchg(&amp;kgdb_active, cpu);
      |    ^~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 75cf9797006a3a9f29a3a25c1febd6842a4a9eb2 ]

Fix this compiler warning:
kernel/debug/debug_core.c: In function ‘kgdb_cpu_enter’:
arch/parisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:48:3: warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
   48 |  ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__xchg((unsigned long)(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))))
arch/parisc/include/asm/atomic.h:78:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘xchg’
   78 | #define atomic_xchg(v, new) (xchg(&amp;((v)-&gt;counter), new))
      |                              ^~~~
kernel/debug/debug_core.c:596:4: note: in expansion of macro ‘atomic_xchg’
  596 |    atomic_xchg(&amp;kgdb_active, cpu);
      |    ^~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Rename LEVEL to PA_ASM_LEVEL to avoid name clash with DRBD code</title>
<updated>2019-05-25T16:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-05T21:54:34+00:00</published>
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commit 1829dda0e87f4462782ca81be474c7890efe31ce upstream.

LEVEL is a very common word, and now after many years it suddenly
clashed with another LEVEL define in the DRBD code.
Rename it to PA_ASM_LEVEL instead.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1829dda0e87f4462782ca81be474c7890efe31ce upstream.

LEVEL is a very common word, and now after many years it suddenly
clashed with another LEVEL define in the DRBD code.
Rename it to PA_ASM_LEVEL instead.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T06:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T21:44:00+00:00</published>
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commit 5ffa8518851f1401817c15d2a7eecc0373c26ff9 upstream.

When running on qemu we know that the (emulated) cr16 cpu-internal
clocks are syncronized. So let's use them unconditionally on qemu.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5ffa8518851f1401817c15d2a7eecc0373c26ff9 upstream.

When running on qemu we know that the (emulated) cr16 cpu-internal
clocks are syncronized. So let's use them unconditionally on qemu.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Remove unnecessary barriers from spinlock.h</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T11:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-12T20:31:17+00:00</published>
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commit 3b885ac1dc35b87a39ee176a6c7e2af9c789d8b8 upstream.

Now that mb() is an instruction barrier, it will slow performance if we issue
unnecessary barriers.

The spinlock defines have a number of unnecessary barriers.  The __ldcw()
define is both a hardware and compiler barrier.  The mb() barriers in the
routines using __ldcw() serve no purpose.

The only barrier needed is the one in arch_spin_unlock().  We need to ensure
all accesses are complete prior to releasing the lock.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3b885ac1dc35b87a39ee176a6c7e2af9c789d8b8 upstream.

Now that mb() is an instruction barrier, it will slow performance if we issue
unnecessary barriers.

The spinlock defines have a number of unnecessary barriers.  The __ldcw()
define is both a hardware and compiler barrier.  The mb() barriers in the
routines using __ldcw() serve no purpose.

The only barrier needed is the one in arch_spin_unlock().  We need to ensure
all accesses are complete prior to releasing the lock.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>parisc: Define mb() and add memory barriers to assembler unlock sequences</title>
<updated>2018-08-15T16:14:41+00:00</updated>
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<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
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<published>2018-08-05T17:30:31+00:00</published>
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commit fedb8da96355f5f64353625bf96dc69423ad1826 upstream.

For years I thought all parisc machines executed loads and stores in
order. However, Jeff Law recently indicated on gcc-patches that this is
not correct. There are various degrees of out-of-order execution all the
way back to the PA7xxx processor series (hit-under-miss). The PA8xxx
series has full out-of-order execution for both integer operations, and
loads and stores.

This is described in the following article:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040214092531/http://www.cpus.hp.com/technical_references/advperf.shtml

For this reason, we need to define mb() and to insert a memory barrier
before the store unlocking spinlocks. This ensures that all memory
accesses are complete prior to unlocking. The ldcw instruction performs
the same function on entry.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fedb8da96355f5f64353625bf96dc69423ad1826 upstream.

For years I thought all parisc machines executed loads and stores in
order. However, Jeff Law recently indicated on gcc-patches that this is
not correct. There are various degrees of out-of-order execution all the
way back to the PA7xxx processor series (hit-under-miss). The PA8xxx
series has full out-of-order execution for both integer operations, and
loads and stores.

This is described in the following article:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040214092531/http://www.cpus.hp.com/technical_references/advperf.shtml

For this reason, we need to define mb() and to insert a memory barrier
before the store unlocking spinlocks. This ensures that all memory
accesses are complete prior to unlocking. The ldcw instruction performs
the same function on entry.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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