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Thomas Gleixner b4d0d230cc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.552531963@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
Will Deacon fcfdfe30e3 locking/barriers: Introduce smp_cond_load_relaxed() and atomic_cond_read_relaxed()
Whilst we currently provide smp_cond_load_acquire() and
atomic_cond_read_acquire(), there are cases where the ACQUIRE semantics are
not required because of a subsequent fence or release operation once the
conditional loop has exited.

This patch adds relaxed versions of the conditional spinning primitives
to avoid unnecessary barrier overhead on architectures such as arm64.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27 09:48:44 +02:00
David Howells 739d875dd6 mn10300: Remove the architecture
Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-09 23:19:56 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 726328d92a locking/spinlock, arch: Update and fix spin_unlock_wait() implementations
This patch updates/fixes all spin_unlock_wait() implementations.

The update is in semantics; where it previously was only a control
dependency, we now upgrade to a full load-acquire to match the
store-release from the spin_unlock() we waited on. This ensures that
when spin_unlock_wait() returns, we're guaranteed to observe the full
critical section we waited on.

This fixes a number of spin_unlock_wait() users that (not
unreasonably) rely on this.

I also fixed a number of ticket lock versions to only wait on the
current lock holder, instead of for a full unlock, as this is
sufficient.

Furthermore; again for ticket locks; I added an smp_rmb() in between
the initial ticket load and the spin loop testing the current value
because I could not convince myself the address dependency is
sufficient, esp. if the loads are of different sizes.

I'm more than happy to remove this smp_rmb() again if people are
certain the address dependency does indeed work as expected.

Note: PPC32 will be fixed independently

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: chris@zankel.net
Cc: cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
Cc: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: realmz6@gmail.com
Cc: rkuo@codeaurora.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: vgupta@synopsys.com
Cc: ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14 11:55:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7cb45c0fe9 locking/barriers: Move smp_cond_load_acquire() to asm-generic/barrier.h
Since all asm/barrier.h should/must include asm-generic/barrier.h the
latter is a good place for generic infrastructure like this.

This also allows archs to override the new smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14 11:55:14 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 6a65d26385 asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers
Guests running within virtual machines might be affected by SMP effects even if
the guest itself is compiled without SMP support.  This is an artifact of
interfacing with an SMP host while running an UP kernel.  Using mandatory
barriers for this use-case would be possible but is often suboptimal.

In particular, virtio uses a bunch of confusing ifdefs to work around
this, while xen just uses the mandatory barriers.

To better handle this case, low-level virt_mb() etc macros are made available.
These are implemented trivially using the low-level __smp_xxx macros,
the purpose of these wrappers is to annotate those specific cases.

These have the same effect as smp_mb() etc when SMP is enabled, but generate
identical code for SMP and non-SMP systems. For example, virtual machine guests
should use virt_mb() rather than smp_mb() when synchronizing against a
(possibly SMP) host.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-01-12 20:46:59 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin a9e4252a9b asm-generic: add __smp_xxx wrappers
On !SMP, most architectures define their
barriers as compiler barriers.
On SMP, most need an actual barrier.

Make it possible to remove the code duplication for
!SMP by defining low-level __smp_xxx barriers
which do not depend on the value of SMP, then
use them from asm-generic conditionally.

Besides reducing code duplication, these low level APIs will also be
useful for virtualization, where a barrier is sometimes needed even if
!SMP since we might be talking to another kernel on the same SMP system.

Both virtio and Xen drivers will benefit.

The smp_xxx variants should use __smp_XXX ones or barrier() depending on
SMP, identically for all architectures.

We keep ifndef guards around them for now - once/if all
architectures are converted to use the generic
code, we'll be able to remove these.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-01-12 20:46:52 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 57f7c0370f asm-generic: guard smp_store_release/load_acquire
Allow architectures to override smp_store_release
and smp_load_acquire by guarding the defines
in asm-generic/barrier.h with ifndef directives.

This is in preparation to reusing asm-generic/barrier.h
on architectures which have their own definition
of these macros.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-01-12 20:46:46 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 5a1b26d7c6 lcoking/barriers, arch: Use smp barriers in smp_store_release()
With commit b92b8b35a2 ("locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()")
it was made clear that the context of this call (and thus set_mb)
is strictly for CPU ordering, as opposed to IO. As such all archs
should use the smp variant of mb(), respecting the semantics and
saving a mandatory barrier on UP.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-12 20:46:46 +02:00
Andrey Konovalov 76695af20c locking, arch: use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() in smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire()
Replace ACCESS_ONCE() macro in smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on x86, arm, arm64, ia64, metag, mips,
powerpc, s390, sparc and asm-generic since ACCESS_ONCE() does not work
reliably on non-scalar types.

WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() were introduced in the following commits:

  230fa253df ("kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE")
  43239cbe79 ("kernel: Change ASSIGN_ONCE(val, x) to WRITE_ONCE(x, val)")

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438528264-714-1-git-send-email-andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:59:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0890a26479 - Support for HS38 cores based on ARCv2 ISA
ARCv2 is the next generation ISA from Synopsys and basis for the
      HS3{4,6,8} families of processors which retain the traditional ARC mantra of
      low power and configurability and are now more performant and feature rich.
 
      HS38x is a 10 stage pipeline core which supports MMU (with huge pages) and
      SMP (upto 4 cores) among other features.
 
      + www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs38-processor
      + http://news.synopsys.com/2014-10-14-New-DesignWare-ARC-HS38-Processor-Doubles-Performance-for-Embedded-Linux-Applications
      + http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4435975/Synopsys-ARC-HS38-core-gives-2X-boost-to-Linux-based-apps
 
  - Support for ARC SDP (Software Development platform): Main Board + CPU Cards
     = AXS101: CPU Card with ARC700 in silicon @ 700 MHz
     = AXS103: CPU Card with HS38x in FPGA
 
  - Refactoring of ARCompact port to accomodate new ARCv2 ISA
  - Miscll updates/cleanups
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Merge tag 'arc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

Pull ARC architecture updates from Vineet Gupta:

 - support for HS38 cores based on ARCv2 ISA

     ARCv2 is the next generation ISA from Synopsys and basis for the
     HS3{4,6,8} families of processors which retain the traditional ARC mantra of
     low power and configurability and are now more performant and feature rich.

     HS38x is a 10 stage pipeline core which supports MMU (with huge pages) and
     SMP (upto 4 cores) among other features.

     + www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=arc-hs38-processor
     + http://news.synopsys.com/2014-10-14-New-DesignWare-ARC-HS38-Processor-Doubles-Performance-for-Embedded-Linux-Applications
     + http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4435975/Synopsys-ARC-HS38-core-gives-2X-boost-to-Linux-based-apps

 - support for ARC SDP (Software Development platform): Main Board + CPU Cards
    = AXS101: CPU Card with ARC700 in silicon @ 700 MHz
    = AXS103: CPU Card with HS38x in FPGA

 - refactoring of ARCompact port to accomodate new ARCv2 ISA

 - misc updates/cleanups

* tag 'arc-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (72 commits)
  ARC: Fix build failures for ARCompact in linux-next after ARCv2 support
  ARCv2: Allow older gcc to cope with new regime of ARCv2/ARCompact support
  ARCv2: [vdk] dts files and defconfig for HS38 VDK
  ARCv2: [axs103] Support ARC SDP FPGA platform for HS38x cores
  ARC: [axs101] Prepare for AXS103
  ARCv2: [nsim*hs*] Support simulation platforms for HS38x cores
  ARCv2: All bits in place, allow ARCv2 builds
  ARCv2: SLC: Handle explcit flush for DMA ops (w/o IO-coherency)
  ARCv2: STAR 9000837815 workaround hardware exclusive transactions livelock
  ARC: Reduce bitops lines of code using macros
  ARCv2: barriers
  arch: conditionally define smp_{mb,rmb,wmb}
  ARC: add smp barriers around atomics per Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
  ARC: add compiler barrier to LLSC based cmpxchg
  ARCv2: SMP: intc: IDU 2nd level intc for dynamic IRQ distribution
  ARCv2: SMP: clocksource: Enable Global Real Time counter
  ARCv2: SMP: ARConnect debug/robustness
  ARCv2: SMP: Support ARConnect (MCIP) for Inter-Core-Interrupts et al
  ARC: make plat_smp_ops weak to allow over-rides
  ARCv2: clocksource: Introduce 64bit local RTC counter
  ...
2015-07-01 09:24:26 -07:00
Vineet Gupta 470c27e469 arch: conditionally define smp_{mb,rmb,wmb}
That way arches can define the minimal versions and still #include
asm-generic for defaults (vs. defining defaults in arch code)

See new barrier.h in arc for usage !

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-06-25 06:00:17 +05:30
Peter Zijlstra b92b8b35a2 locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()
Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier
like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:32:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ab3f02fc23 locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb()
Since we assume set_mb() to result in a single store followed by a
full memory barrier, employ WRITE_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:31:59 +02:00
Alexander Duyck 1077fa36f2 arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb()
There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and
wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers
and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be.  For
example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync
instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed
is an lsync or eieio instruction.

This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers
rmb() and wmb().  In most cases this should result in the barrier being the
same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a
barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb().  For example on
ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows:

  Barrier   Call     Explanation
  --------- -------- ----------------------------------
  rmb()     dsb()    Data synchronization barrier - system
  dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable
  smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable

These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb().
Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent
memories.  The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of
reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the
CPU and a device.

It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb().  Most architectures don't
provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without
resorting to the same mechanism used in mb().  As such there isn't much to
be gained in trying to define such a function.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-11 21:15:06 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra febdbfe8a9 arch: Prepare for smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
Since the smp_mb__{before,after}*() ops are fundamentally dependent on
how an arch can implement atomics it doesn't make sense to have 3
variants of them. They must all be the same.

Furthermore, the 3 variants suggest they're only valid for those 3
atomic ops, while we have many more where they could be applied.

So move away from
smp_mb__{before,after}_{atomic,clear}_{dec,inc,bit}() and reduce the
interface to just the two: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic().

This patch prepares the way by introducing default implementations in
asm-generic/barrier.h that default to a full barrier and providing
__deprecated inlines for the previous 6 barriers if they're not
provided by the arch.

This should allow for a mostly painless transition (lots of deprecated
warns in the interim).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wr59327qdyi9mbzn6x937s4e@git.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-18 11:40:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 47933ad41a arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release()
A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(),
even though there is no need to order prior stores against later
loads.  Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these
situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way
to make use of them.

This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() to remedy this situation.  The new
smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against
any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release()
primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or
writes.  These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be
implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical
hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional
expense on most architectures.

In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference()
and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial
improvements in readability.  It therefore seems likely that
replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits.  It appears
that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code
might be so replaced.

[Changelog by PaulMck]

Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 10:37:17 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 93ea02bb84 arch: Clean up asm/barrier.h implementations using asm-generic/barrier.h
We're going to be adding a few new barrier primitives, and in order to
avoid endless duplication make more agressive use of
asm-generic/barrier.h.

Change the asm-generic/barrier.h such that it allows partial barrier
definitions and fills out the rest with defaults.

There are a few architectures (m32r, m68k) that could probably
do away with their barrier.h file entirely but are kept for now due to
their unconventional nop() implementation.

Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.846368594@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 10:37:15 +01:00
David Howells 885df91ca3 Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h and move the barrier definitions from
asm-generic/system.h to it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00