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Commit f862eefe authored by Chris Metcalf's avatar Chris Metcalf
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tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in CONFIG_PREEMPT



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 509eb76e.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
parent 3f725c5b
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