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authorHector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>2022-08-16 10:03:11 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-08-25 12:38:10 +0300
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locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure
commit 415d832497098030241605c52ea83d4e2cfa7879 upstream. These operations are documented as always ordered in include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h, and producer-consumer type use cases where one side needs to ensure a flag is left pending after some shared data was updated rely on this ordering, even in the failure case. This is the case with the workqueue code, which currently suffers from a reproducible ordering violation on Apple M1 platforms (which are notoriously out-of-order) that ends up causing the TTY layer to fail to deliver data to userspace properly under the right conditions. This change fixes that bug. Change the documentation to restrict the "no order on failure" story to the _lock() variant (for which it makes sense), and remove the early-exit from the generic implementation, which is what causes the missing barrier semantics in that case. Without this, the remaining atomic op is fully ordered (including on ARM64 LSE, as of recent versions of the architecture spec). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e986a0d6cb36 ("locking/atomics, asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h: Rewrite using atomic_*() APIs") Fixes: 61e02392d3c7 ("locking/atomic/bitops: Document and clarify ordering semantics for failed test_and_{}_bit()") Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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