Patch "powerpc: Make {cmp}xchg* and their atomic_ versions fully" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc: Make {cmp}xchg* and their atomic_ versions fully

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-make-cmp-xchg-and-their-atomic_-versions-fully.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 09:30:32 +0800
Subject: powerpc: Make {cmp}xchg* and their atomic_ versions fully
ordered

From: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>

commit 81d7a3294de7e9828310bbf986a67246b13fa01e upstream.

According to memory-barriers.txt, xchg*, cmpxchg* and their atomic_ versions all need to be fully ordered, however they are now just RELEASE+ACQUIRE, which are not fully ordered.

So also replace PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER and PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER with PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER and PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER in __{cmp,}xchg_{u32,u64} respectively to guarantee fully ordered semantics of atomic{,64}_{cmp,}xchg() and {cmp,}xchg(), as a complement of commit b97021f85517 ("powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics")

This patch depends on patch "powerpc: Make value-returning atomics fully ordered" for PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER definition.

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ __xchg_u32(volatile void *p, unsigned lo
 	unsigned long prev;
 
 	__asm__ __volatile__(
-	PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER
 "1:	lwarx	%0,0,%2 \n"
 	PPC405_ERR77(0,%2)
 "	stwcx.	%3,0,%2 \n\
 	bne-	1b"
-	PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER
 	: "=&r" (prev), "+m" (*(volatile unsigned int *)p)
 	: "r" (p), "r" (val)
 	: "cc", "memory");

@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ __xchg_u64(volatile void *p, unsigned lo
 	unsigned long prev;
 
 	__asm__ __volatile__(
-	PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER
 "1:	ldarx	%0,0,%2 \n"
 	PPC405_ERR77(0,%2)
 "	stdcx.	%3,0,%2 \n\
 	bne-	1b"
-	PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER
 	: "=&r" (prev), "+m" (*(volatile unsigned long *)p)
 	: "r" (p), "r" (val)
 	: "cc", "memory");

@@ -151,14 +151,14 @@ __cmpxchg_u32(volatile unsigned int *p,
 	unsigned int prev;
 
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-	PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER
 "1:	lwarx	%0,0,%2		# __cmpxchg_u32\n\
 	cmpw	0,%0,%3\n\
 	bne-	2f\n"
 	PPC405_ERR77(0,%2)
 "	stwcx.	%4,0,%2\n\
 	bne-	1b"
-	PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER
 	"\n\
 2:"
 	: "=&r" (prev), "+m" (*p)

@@ -197,13 +197,13 @@ __cmpxchg_u64(volatile unsigned long *p,
 	unsigned long prev;
 
 	__asm__ __volatile__ (
-	PPC_RELEASE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_ENTRY_BARRIER
 "1:	ldarx	%0,0,%2		# __cmpxchg_u64\n\
 	cmpd	0,%0,%3\n\
 	bne-	2f\n\
 	stdcx.	%4,0,%2\n\
 	bne-	1b"
-	PPC_ACQUIRE_BARRIER
+	PPC_ATOMIC_EXIT_BARRIER
 	"\n\
 2:"
 	: "=&r" (prev), "+m" (*p)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/powerpc-make-value-returning-atomics-fully-ordered.patch queue-4.4/powerpc-make-cmp-xchg-and-their-atomic_-versions-fully.patch