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x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg()
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:01:49 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:19:31 +0000 (13:19 -0700)
commit8928a1924ad64ce3c564812ad2a418bed989a780
tree30bfa26fc66cc93c2ff878abceead1694120c46d
parent607398aa9fa5ad63546a1c6ef2c1cfd6cf7cd408
x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg()

commit 113fc5a6e8c2288619ff7e8187a6f556b7e0d372 upstream.

xchg() and cmpxchg() modify their memory operands, not merely read
them.  For some versions of gcc the "memory" clobber has apparently
dealt with the situation, but not for all.

Originally-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C4F7277.8050306@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h