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 509eb76ebf.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Chris Metcalf
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