@@ -15,9 +15,37 @@
#ifndef _ASM_TILE_PERCPU_H
#define _ASM_TILE_PERCPU_H
-register unsigned long __my_cpu_offset __asm__("tp");
-#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset
-#define set_my_cpu_offset(tp) (__my_cpu_offset = (tp))
+register unsigned long my_cpu_offset_reg asm("tp");
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+/*
+ * For full preemption, we can't just use the register variable
+ * directly, since we need barrier() to hazard against it, causing the
+ * compiler to reload anything computed from a previous "tp" value.
+ * But we also don't want to use volatile asm, since we'd like the
+ * compiler to be able to cache the value across multiple percpu reads.
+ * So we use a fake stack read as a hazard against barrier().
+ * The 'U' constraint is like 'm' but disallows postincrement.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long __my_cpu_offset(void)
+{
+ unsigned long tp;
+ register unsigned long *sp asm("sp");
+ asm("move %0, tp" : "=r" (tp) : "U" (*sp));
+ return tp;
+}
+#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset()
+#else
+/*
+ * We don't need to hazard against barrier() since "tp" doesn't ever
+ * change with PREEMPT_NONE, and with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY it only
+ * changes at function call points, at which we are already re-reading
+ * the value of "tp" due to "my_cpu_offset_reg" being a global variable.
+ */
+#define __my_cpu_offset my_cpu_offset_reg
+#endif
+
+#define set_my_cpu_offset(tp) (my_cpu_offset_reg = (tp))
#include <asm-generic/percpu.h>
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in CONFIG_PREEMPT to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.12. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 7a9c08dcf96a64e577a685b70d6bfae41c4c1cd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:24:53 -0400 Subject: tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in CONFIG_PREEMPT commit f862eefec0b68e099a9fa58d3761ffb10bad97e1 upstream. It turns out the kernel relies on barrier() to force a reload of the percpu offset value. Since we can't easily modify the definition of barrier() to include "tp" as an output register, we instead provide a definition of __my_cpu_offset as extended assembly that includes a fake stack read to hazard against barrier(), forcing gcc to know that it must reread "tp" and recompute anything based on "tp" after a barrier. This fixes observed hangs in the slub allocator when we are looping on a percpu cmpxchg_double. A similar fix for ARMv7 was made in June in change 509eb76ebf97. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- arch/tile/include/asm/percpu.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2