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Commit cb13b424 authored by Andrea Parri's avatar Andrea Parri Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/xchg/alpha: Add unconditional memory barrier to cmpxchg()



Continuing along with the fight against smp_read_barrier_depends() [1]
(or rather, against its improper use), add an unconditional barrier to
cmpxchg.  This guarantees that dependency ordering is preserved when a
dependency is headed by an unsuccessful cmpxchg.  As it turns out, the
change could enable further simplification of LKMM as proposed in [2].

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150884953419377&w=2
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150884946319353&w=2
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151215810824468&w=2
    https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151215816324484&w=2

[2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151881978314872&w=2

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519152356-4804-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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