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: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>